Argument as dialogue across difference : engaging youth in public literacies / Jennifer Clifton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clifton, Jennifer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debates and debating--Study and teaching.

Debates and debating.

Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Rhetoric.

Social interaction--Study and teaching.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 164 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change-changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and relating? The author explores teaching argument in ways that take into account the complexities and pluralities young people face as they attempt to enact local and global citizenship with others who may reasonably disagree. The focus is foremost on social action-the hard, hopeful work of finding productive ways forward in contexts where people need to work together across difference to get something worthwhile done. Book jacket.

Contents:

Provisional knowing and the need for argument

Dynamic and distributed argument : youth and contemporary public life

Constructing shared concerns and alternative practices of argument in public life

Argument as dialogue across difference : the praxis of public life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138665927

1138665924

9781138665934

1138665932

OCLC:

967719354