Argument, Advocacy, and Deliberation in the Classroom

Morning Session, May 16, 2008

In this session, Dr. Tim O’Donnell (Director, UMW Debate Program) discussed the role of argumentation in the FSEM, and directed a breakout session in which faculty participated in a variety of different discussion and debate formats.

Tim’s presentation
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Breakout group’s discussion of debate formats
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Argument and the FSEM
This document contains all of the breakout group exercises (with hyperlinks to more developed resources). And like I said - this was a few of the many deliberative models that are being employed all over the world. For more, go to the National Coalition for Deliberation and Dialogue’s links to a variety of models.

Culture and Argument