Argumentation in Higher Education by Richard Andrews

Argumentation in Higher Education by Richard Andrews

Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of argumentation open and transparent.

"Argumentation is not simply contradiction of other viewpoints (as it plays out in many classrooms); it is, rather, an intricate, intriguing, and structured dance of ideasThis book shows how to nurture productive and civilized argumentation in the broader interests of informed and tolerant discourse." —Teaching Theology and Religion

"A thought-provoking text and a valuable addition to the library of university teachers in any discipline."--London Review of Education

Richard Andrews has ten years of experience teaching English, Drama, and English as a Second Language in schools in Yorkshire, London and Hong Kong. Since then, he has worked on initial and continuing teacher education at the universities of Hull, Middlesex (London), York, the Institute of Education (London) and New York University. He is the author and editor of a number of books on argument, including Narrative and Argument (Open University Press, 1989), Teaching and Learning Argument (Cassell, 1995) and, with Sally Mitchell, Essays in Argument (Middlesex University Press, 2000) and an edited collection of academic essays, Learning to Argue in Higher Education (Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2001). His research interests are in argumentation (verbal and visual), visual literacy’s and e-learning. He continues to run workshops and courses for teachers and students: most recently ‘Dramatic Activities in the English Classroom’ and ‘Educational Linguistics’ at NYU, and ‘Argumentation and Education’ at The University of York.

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ISBN 13	9780415995016
ISBN 10	0415995019
Title	Argumentation in Higher Education
Author	Richard Andrews
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2009-09-08
Number of pages	238
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