Introduction: Speech and Debate as Civic Education

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: Speech and Debate as Civic Education: Challenges and Opportunities xi
5. Introduction: Speech and Debate as Civic Education 1
6. Part 1: History of Speech and Debate as Civic Education
7. 1 Warriors and Statesmen: Debate Education Among Free African American Men in Antebellum Charleston 25
8. 2 Renewing a “Very Old Means of Education”: Civic Engagement and the Birth of Intercollegiate Debate in the United States 36
9. 3 Taking Women Seriously: Debaters, Faculty Allies, and the Feminist Work of Debating in the 1930s and 1940s 53
10. 4 The Intersection of Debate and Democracy: The Shifting Role of Forensics in the History of American Civic Education 64
11. Part 2: Debate Education and Public Deliberation
12. 5 Public Debate and American Democracy: Guidelines for Pedagogy 81
13. 6 When Argumentation Backfires: The Motivated Reasoning Predicament in Speech and Debate Pedagogy 94
14. 7 Teaching Religion Through Argument, Speech, and Debate: Critiquing Logos and Mythos 108
15. Part 3: Rethinking Competitive Speech and Debate
16. 8 The CEDA–Miller Center War Powers Debates: A Case for Intercollegiate Debate’s Civic Roles 125
17. 9 Beyond Peitho: The Women’s Debate Institute as Civic Education 136
18. 10 Debating Conviction: From Sincere Belief to Affective Atmosphere 149
19. 11 Debaters as Citizens: Rethinking Debate Frameworks to Address the Policy/Performance Divide 163
20. Part 4: Cultivating Civic Skills and Literacy
21. 12 Debate Activities and the Promise of Citizenship 177
22. 13 Deliberation as Civic Education: Incorporating Public Deliberation into the Communication Studies Curriculum 191
23. 14 Youth, Networks, and Civic Engagement: Communities of Belonging and Communities of Practice 205
24. 15 Pathways to Civic Education: Urban Debate Leagues as Communities of Practice 221
25. Part 5: International Collaboration and Interconnections in Debate
26. 16 Comparing Argument and Debate Modes to Invoke Student Civic Engagement: Learning from “The Ben” 237
27. 17 The Worlds-Style Debate Format: Performing Global Citizenship 250
28. 18 Suzhi Jiaoyu, Debate, and Civic Education in China 265
29. Notes 277
30. Selected Bibliography 315
31. List of Contributors 323
32. Index 331