Debate as Global Pedagogy

Ben Voth is associate professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech at Southern Methodist University.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Communication Roots of Injustice and Genocide and Rwanda as a ModelChapter 1: Darkness before the Dawn of the 21st Century--Rwanda 1994Chapter 2: Discursive Complexity and the Global Renaissance for JusticeChapter 3: Debate Training in Rwanda among security forcesChapter 4: Deconstructing Anti-Colonialism and Anti- Imperialism as Jacobin Predicates of ViolenceChapter 5: Debate as Pedagogical Empowerment at HBCUs in the United StatesChapter 6: The Global Ecological Museum and the Climate DebateChapter 7: Rwanda Rising: Rwanda as a Global Model for SuccessChapter 8: Guatemala Rising with the Creative Peace ProcessChapter 9: China Rising: Debate programs across ChinaChapter 10: Debate as a global empowerment tool for ending Injustice and Genocide Chapter 11: Coolidge Debate Pedagogy: Learning how to speak and debateChapter 12: Conclusions--How Debate Helps the Global Human Community

Scholars and teachers of argumentation and debated will find much to appreciate in Debate as Global Pedagogy, while much of the book is dedicated to case study and theory, there is much to be gained in the way of practical applications in the book- not to mention a sense that even while travel is encumbered by health and geopolitical concerns, it is possible to implement debate as a global pedagogy in all classrooms.