«It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it», says a quote from Joseph Joubert. Debate is one of the most valued text genres and is therefore included in curricular or extracurricular academic activities. What do we teach by teaching how to debate? What do students learn by learning how to debate? They can compete, collaborate and might even develop a new skill. Since concrete educational choices reflect a certain underlying educational philosophy, in what follows the model proposed by Biesta (2010,2016,2017) will be illustrated. The theoretical knowledge drawn from this framework will then be applied to the analysis of the Oxford Debate, in the version adopted by the regulated debate tournaments in Poland as well as to the discussion of a modification of the Oxford Debate itself, inspired by the concept of 'risk of education' (or rather, 'The Beautiful risk of educatio', as the title of one of Biesta’s books reads).
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Chapter Title
Il dibattito come rischio educativo
Authors
Maria Załęska
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1.06
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate
Editors
Adelino Cattani, Bruno Mastroianni
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
168
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-328-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-329-1
Series Title
Communication and Philosophical Cultures. Researches and Instruments
Series ISSN
2975-1152
Series E-ISSN
2975-1233