Design and Evaluation of a Regulated Debate - PROVA-DIRE
Lifelong Learning Course
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Laura Nota
Dates: 06 November - 18 December 2020, weekly. Friday 6 November and 18 December, 16:00-19:00 (in person and online); Friday 13-20-27 November and 4-11 December 16:00-18:00 (online)
Goals: The course aims to train the new figure of the lecturer trainer, coach and judge of regulated debate, able to organize, manage and evaluate a reasoned debate in the form of a school dispute and in the spirit of the new teaching methods proposed by the MIUR and the Educational Avant-gardes and in harmony with the inclusion objectives of the UN Agenda 20/30.
The course combines argumentation theory and debate practice.
Target audience: Secondary and first grade high school teachers. Primary school teachers. Trainers and judges of regulated debate.
Training Methods:
Main: Face-to-face lessons. Online classes. Expert-led workshop activities. Guided online forums. Webinar. Analysis of video-video exchanges.
More: Q&A exercises. Analysis of video-video exchanges. Elaboration and administration of evaluation questionnaires.
Enrolment fee: 300 € (Lecturer card: on the Sofia platform with code 71511)
Registration: EXTENDED REGISTRATIONS: send an email to postlauream.fisppa@unipd.it by November 3, 2020.
For information: Tel: 049 8274715 – 049 8870646 – 3397050155
Email: adelino.cattani@unipd.it
Campus: University classrooms, Fisppa Department, Piazza Capitaniato 3, Padova; Classrooms of the CampusFuturo Foundation; Zoom and Moodle platform
Syllabus:
MODULE 1 - ARGUING AND REFUTING (5 h)
6 NOVEMBER from 16:00 to 19:00
What is a reasoned and regulated debate. Different possible educational purposes of the debate.
- Promote critical thinking and logical skills
- Practice dialectic skills
- Educating for sociality and active citizenship
- Fostering inclusion
- Search, acquire, and interpret information
- Develop attitudes of cooperation and openness/understanding
- Dealing with conflict situations
- Training for Debate Competitions
13 NOVEMBER from 16:00 to 18:00
As you argue in a debate.
- A typically and exclusively human act: arguing
- Two modes of proof: demonstration and argumentation
- Three Forms of Reasoning and Three Evaluation Criteria
- Four Golden Rules, Also Valid When Arguing
- Five Types of Debate and Five Types of Fallacies
MODULE 2 - ORGANIZING AND CONDUCTING A DEBATE (4h)
20 NOVEMBER from 16:00 to 18:00
How to prepare a regulated debate: themes, teams, timing, problems.
- Strategies for Theme Analysis and Topic Organization
- Written debate: possibilities and opportunities. Tools and strategies for exercising online written debate
- The debate in distance learning conditions: possibilities and usefulness
27 NOVEMBER from 16:00 to 18:00
Analysis of the phases and roles of the debate "Patavina Libertas" format.
- Prologue
- Arguments
- Socratic Dialogue
- Replication
- Defense
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgment/Joint Declaration
- MODULE 3 - RULES AND MOVES OF THE DEBATE (4 h)
4 DECEMBER from 16:00 to 18:00
Argumentative practices of persuasion and conviction.
- Construction of eloquent speech.
- The use of logical-rhetorical tools and making use of the separability of rhetorical correctness and effectiveness.
- Accepting in order to reject: discursive aikido.
11 DECEMBER 16:00-18:00
Analysis of the six ways of replying: their appropriateness and effectiveness in different dialectical contexts.
- Ignore
- Accept
- Accept only in part
- Ask for reasons and evidence
- Refute
- Reject
- MODULE 4 - EVALUATING A DEBATE (3 h)
18 DECEMBER from 16:00 to 19:00
How to evaluate a debate.
- Three components of a debate: dissertation, advocates, audience
- Criteria for the acceptability of an argument
- Evaluate the content and evaluate the form
- Evaluation and award criteria, based on the objectives pursued
- Elaboration of pre- and post-evaluation questionnaires.
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