Design and Evaluation of a Structured Debate - PROVA-DIRE
Lifelong learning course
Scientific director: Professor Laura Nota
Course period: 06 November - 18 December 2020, weekly schedule. 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)
Aims: The course aims to train the new professional figure of the lecturer trainer, coach and judge of regulated debate, able to organise, manage and assess an argumentative debate in the form of a school dispute and in the spirit of the new teaching methods proposed by MIUR and Avanguardie educative, and in harmony with the inclusion objectives of the UN 20/30 Agenda.
The course combines argumentation theory and debate practice.
Intended participants: Upper and lower secondary school teachers. Primary school teachers. Trainers and judges of regulated debate.
Teaching methods:
Main: Lectures. Online lessons. Workshop activities guided by experts. Guided online forums. Webinars. Analysis of filmed video exchanges.
Additional: Question-and-answer practice exercises. Analysis of filmed video exchanges. Preparation and administration of assessment questionnaires.
Enrolment fee: €300 (Carta docente: on the Sofia platform with code 71511)
Applications: APPLICATIONS EXTENDED: send an email to postlauream.fisppa@unipd.it by 3 November 2020.
For information: Tel: 049 8274715 – 049 8870646 – 3397050155
Email: adelino.cattani@unipd.it
Venue: University classrooms, Department of Fisppa, Piazza Capitaniato 3, Padua; Fondazione CampusFuturo classrooms; Zoom and Moodle platforms
Programme:
MODULE 1 - ARGUING AND REBUTTING (5 h)
6 NOVEMBER 16:00-19:00
What an argumentative and regulated debate is. Different possible educational aims of debate.
- Promoting critical thinking and logical abilities
- Exercising dialectical skills
- Educating for social participation and active citizenship
- Encouraging inclusion
- Researching, acquiring and interpreting information
- Developing attitudes of cooperation and openness/understanding
- Managing conflict situations
- Training for debate competitions
13 NOVEMBER 16:00-18:00
How to argue in a debate.
- A typically and exclusively human act: discussing
- Two modes of proof: demonstration and argumentation
- Three forms of reasoning and three assessment criteria
- Four golden rules, also valid when discussing
- Five types of debate and five types of fallacies
MODULE 2 - ORGANISING AND LEADING A DEBATE (4h)
20 NOVEMBER 16:00-18:00
How to prepare a regulated debate: topics, teams, timing, problems.
- Strategies for topic analysis and the organisation of arguments
- Debate in written form: possibilities and opportunities. Tools and strategies for practising written debate online
- Debate in distance teaching conditions: possibilities and usefulness
27 NOVEMBER 16:00-18:00
Analysis of the stages and roles of the debate in the “Patavina Libertas” Format.
- Prologue
- Arguments
- Socratic dialogue
- Reply
- Defence
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgement/Joint declaration
- MODULE 3 - RULES AND MOVES OF DEBATE (4 h)
4 DECEMBER 16:00-18:00
Argumentative practices of persuasion and conviction.
- Construction of eloquent speech.
- The use of logical-rhetorical tools and making use of the separability of correctness and rhetorical 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 - ASSESSING A DEBATE (3 h)
18 DECEMBER 16:00-19:00
How a debate is assessed.
- Three components of a debate: thesis, proponents, audience
- Criteria for the acceptability of an argument
- Assessing content and assessing form
- Assessment and adjudication criteria, according to the aims pursued
- Preparation of pre- and post-assessment questionnaires.
Lifelong learning courses