Training Kit on Debate Strategy
Strategy:
A long-term plan for reaching a certain goal, and it is considered a necessary skill for achieving success in war, politics, business, industry, sport, and others.
Strategy is the organisation's plan of decisions that shows its aims and goals, and narrows down the main policies and plans for achieving these goals, and defines the actions the organisation will undertake, and the kind of economic and human organisation it wants, along with the contribution it plans to offer its shareholders, customers and society as a whole.
Learning by Debate:
A strategy among the active learning strategies for delivering learning, based on the idea of having certain readings from points of view that build on communicative activities focused on the message, or the content, between two groups of students, ending with the acceptance of a particular point of view by presenting the arguments and evidence supporting it.
Debate Strategy:
Textual evidence related to quoting and citing the opinions of thinkers, scholars and agreed-upon books, and rational evidence based on argument and logic.
Traditional teaching of what happens in well-known debates that occur between two people, each of whom seeks to highlight their point of view regarding a particular topic.
Objectives of Debate
The goal of debate is not to graduate debaters; rather, it aims to equip learners with a set of skills and abilities, and these skills can be divided into three groups:
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Intellectual Skills:
Such as skills of logical thinking, exploration, the ability to construct arguments and evidence to reach the most logical opinion, expressing thought and conveying knowledge, in addition to scientific research skills and note-taking.
Such as skills of dialogue, discussion and listening, respecting differing points of view, and teamwork skills.
Such as the skill of speaking, and the ability to express oneself by choosing appropriate words.
Teachers, educational supervisors, and anyone interested in active-learning strategies.