Description:
Argumentation has become increasingly important in education. This book considers theoretical and methodological issues of argumentation in education and offers concrete examples of experiments and results of argumentation in a vast range of school contexts.
Review Quotes:
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)