Argumentation and Education

• 1.- Argumentation as an Object of Interest and as a Social and Cultural Resource.- Psychosocial Processes in Argumentation.- Argumentation and Learning.- Argumentative Interactions and the Social Construction of Knowledge.- Argumentative Design.- 2.- Developing Argumentation: Lessons Learned in the Primary School.- Argumentation in Higher Education: Examples of Actual Practices with Argumentation Tools.- The Argumentum experience.

From the reviews:“The book Argumentation and Education provides a very wide panorama on argumentation theories. … Textual genres help students to situate and compare argumentation practices in all the sociolinguistic practices. … Hence, analysing more situations engaging students in direct dialogue, without any technological mediation, would have been interesting. … transformations are crucial to the understanding of links between argumentation and education. In this matter, a didactic approach …  is most suitable for describing and explaining how social and cultural practices transform into academic ones.” (Roxane Gagnon, Bulletin Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, Issue 91, 2010)“This edited collection is a very welcome addition to texts in the field of argumentation and education. … When woven in with the editors’ own background in social psychology and psychology, the resulting cocktail is a well-balanced, heady and powerful one. … In total there are only ten contributors–but they are all key thinkers in the field and eloquent writers too. This is a book well worth recommending to university libraries and especially for courses on argumentation at school and higher education levels.”­­­ (Richard Andrews, Argumentation, Vol. 24, 2010)