Argumentation and Education

by Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly

• ISBN13: 9780387981246
• ISBN10: 0387981241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-05
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. Argumentation, as such, requires specific intellectual and social skills. Hence, argumentation will have an increasing importance in education, both because it is a critical competence that has to be learned, and because argumentation can be used to foster learning in philosophy, history, sciences and in many other domains. Argumentation and Education answers these and other questions by providing both theoretical backgrounds, in psychology, education and theory of argumentation, and concrete examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains. It reports on existing innovative practices in education settings at various levels.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Theoretical foundations and multidisciplinary perspectives.- Introduction.- Argumentation as a social and cultural resource.- A psychosocial perspective on argumentation in education.- Argumentation and learning.- Argumentation and the social construction of knowledge .- Argumentative design and the role of ICT tools .- Part 2: Teaching experiences in argumentation. Case studies and "lessons learned".- Developing argumentation: lessons learned in the primary school.- Argumentation, debates and oral skills .- Argumentation in higher education: examples of actual practices with argumentation CSCL tools .- The Argumentum experience