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- Title
Revisioning the Argumentation Course.
- Authors
Makau, Josina M.
- Abstract
The cooperative argumentation course described in this article is designed to contribute to the effort toward diversity and multiculturalism in education. The course adapts traditional concepts to fit an emerging alternative framework, one that reflects sensitivity to issues of gender, race, class, affectional orientation, and ethnicity. Julia T. Wood and Lisa Firing Lenze offer insight into at least two dimension of this alternative framework, course content and course processes. They contend that "course content is gender insensitive when it emphasizes, neglects, devaluates or misrepresents experiences, concerns, and/or perspectives typically associated with one sex". The emerging alternative frame incorporates processes that promote collaborative efforts, effective listening, responding to and synthesizing classmates' ideas, cooperation, and open-mindedness.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL change; PUBLIC speaking; CURRICULUM; MULTICULTURAL education; FEMINISM &; education; INSTRUCTIONAL systems
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 1992, Vol 15, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.1992.11089766