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Debating and its discontents

Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
935209 Language & Communication 2006 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

The paper argues that competitive debating is an ancient Greek pedagogical practice, and explores the ways in which, since the Greeks, this highly beneficial educational technique has been consistently denigrated by a wide range of writers and philosophers.

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Debating and its discontents
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Stephen Farrow,
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