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How to debate?
Teaching students how to debate is a great project started in Germany in 2002. It was adapted for Switzerland in 2005 (at the beginning in the German speaking part) and recently, I participated in its diffusion in Ticino (early 2009).
This project helps and improves a lot of abilities, all of which are required by our school system and by our
democracy.
Cognitive competences:
- Understanding a question from various points of view.
- Foreseeing the consequences.
- Refering to a set of values.
- Expressing oneself with full knowledge of the facts.
- Speaking with confidence.
- Persuasion.
- Training all aspects of communication.
- Interaction with others, mutual exchanges.
- Who wants to convince, must know how to listen and answer.
- Respect of others.
Didactic material
- Main website in
, 
and . - Didactic material from http://www.lagioventudibatte.ch/ can be obtained sending an email to Natascha Nota.
Presentation
On January 21, 2009, Natascha Nota (the swiss italian responsible of an organization called Infoclik.ch) and I organized a one day seminar, where we presented the project at the secondary school of Lodrino, as part of the continuing education for teachers.
You can see the presentation here (
):
- Keynote format
- Powerpoint format
Pictures of the seminar
 Nicolas and Natascha |
 Participants |
 Mariano and Melissa |
 Nicoletta and Chino |
 Mariano and Melissa |
 The debate |