Improve Debate's Impact – Details, episodes & analysis

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How do we actually help people to improve at debating? Debating is a form of non-formal learning. Most of the time, debate is not taught by teachers or professionals – but by people who debate themselves. Now, this can be very powerful! But at the same time it is important to recognise that there is a difference - and that the best debaters don't always make the best teachers.  That is why I was delighted to have Przemek Stolarski on for this podcast. Przemek is a succesful coach, a Harvard postgraduate researcher into education, and the co-founder of the Think and Speak Academy, which offers online debate courses for high school students. He brings a wealth of practical coaching experience with a strong overview of the academic literature on improving how we teach debate. So this is a very important jumping-off point on how to get better at debating.  

Find out more about TASA Academy here: https://www.tasacademy.pl/  
Read the full essay on why we should teach kids to debate https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/10/why-we-should-teach-kids-to-debate  

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Georgia (no, not the state - the country) is buiding debate across the country. What is the secret to its success? Join me to find out...

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Vangel used to be a debater. Now he's more. A senior coach at North Macedonia's Youth Educational Forum, he knows better than most how to make a success of your debate club.  With debate clubs moving more and more online, understanding what works is more important than ever. This case study tells us how to make debate fun and educational. Its template can be used for people starting out the year in fall.  

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Learn more about YEF:  

https://www.facebook.com/MOFedu/
https://mof.mk/  

Folder with trainings and pracical advice:
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in this special miniseries we are hosting conversations with some of global debate's leading voices on making debate a more inclusive space.  In this episode we speak with Brian Wong. Brian is DPhil (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review. As a judge they have judged nearly every final in competitive debate, whilst also reaching the semi finals of the European Universities Debating Championships as a speaker.

This conversation was wide-ranging and complex. I feel like you should come away from this conversation with more questions in your head than when you entered it. At its core, this is a conversation about how we as individuals and communities should listen, adapt, grow, and remain open throughout difficult debates about inclusion and discrimination.

Topics include:

* How cross-circuit discrimination materialises and the role ethnicity plays in failing to recognise talent ; how reductive argumentation about minorities makes minorities feel unwelcome whilst at the same time being a succesful strategy in winning a competive debate, and how we can stop this vicious cycle.

* How we can go beyond "performing" progressive attitudes to actually incorporating them in our practice. How this 'performative' attitude means people avoid self-criticism whilst stifling voices at the fringe of the community.

* The role of anger and exhaustion in political conversation, a framework for when it is effective or apt to be angry about racism and discrimination, and a recognition of the hard emotional labour we currently and often ask minorities to do in combatting racism.

IDI hosts conversations about making debate education better. Debate Education is a crucial 21st-century tool to improve young people's critical thinking, civic participation, and public speaking. We talk with leading experts in the field to unlock debate's potential.  IDI is a podcast by the International Debate Education Association.  This podcast is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union.

A list of further sources accompanying the podcast can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lar5XRgFi-eQOUfD_2StAb2_YhIFfzOj?usp=sharing

The paper mentioned by Brian in the end can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237269740_Deliberation_before_the_Revolution_Toward_an_Ethics_of_Deliberative_Democracy_in_an_Unjust_World

The Oxford Political Review can be found here:
http://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/

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 Bob van der Winden has a long and storied career. From studying physics to advising radio stations in Southern Africa. His Sensemapping approach helps you think deeply about your project, and find out what works, and why.  Join us for this conversation about the use and misuse of evaluations, and learn how to improve your program!  Evaluation is the missing piece for so many of our activities: from being a debater, to being a coach, to a programme manager. Understanding evaluation is the key to improve, and this conversation will be insightful no matter your link to debate.  

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www.sensemapping.nl  

For a Debate Impact Evaluation, go to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zvmnHnRU7HpIwamBfkRKxY0AX1OtzvvJ?usp=sharing  

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Improve Debate's Impact!  In this session we are joined by Nathania Engelhardt, founder of Debat.ed, the first-ever debate organisation of Curaçao. She presents a radical and inclusive vision for debate education: outside of the walls and classrooms of universities, bringing debate directly into the community. She also likes to dream big, as she can attest by her plans to organise PanAms and CMUDE (Spanish World Championships) with her fledgling organisation.  

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Debat.ed website https://debated.cw/  

TEDxCuracao | How Debate Education can reshape communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAJoNP6YMXs  

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In this session we are joined by Ondrej Schutz, Executive Director of the Slovak Debate Association. We will learn how you can use the alumni of your debate program to make an impact on your current activities.  

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In this special miniseries we are hosting conversations with some of global debate's leading voices on making debate a more inclusive space.  In this episode we speak with Martha Muir. Martha is currently finishing her undergraduate degree in politics at Durham University. Whilst there she was the Director of Debates at Durham Union and a breaking participant at the European and Universities Debating Championships. 

We discussed the following topics;  

* How stereotyping and essentialising language about minority groups in debate is offputting and harmful, even when employed by people in good faith; what better ways exist to argue about topics concerning minority groups; and how we can improve learning about social justice topics in the community.
* How to have more productive conversations about racism and equity in the community; the damaging role of social media in current discussions; and the importance of patience, of checking your own role in a conversation, and listening to each other.  

IDI hosts conversations about making debate education better. Debate Education is a crucial 21st-century tool to improve young people's critical thinking, civic participation, and public speaking. We talk with leading experts in the field to unlock debate's potential.  IDI is a podcast by the International Debate Education Association.  This podcast is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union. 

A list of further sources accompanying the podcast can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lar5XRgFi-eQOUfD_2StAb2_YhIFfzOj?usp=sharing  

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In this special miniseries we are hosting conversations with some of global debate's leading voices on making debate a more inclusive space. 

 In this episode we speak with Esinam Osei-Bonsu. Esinam is a prominent debater in the Ghanaian debating community, where she helped set up a Women's Tournament to allow women to join ánd stay in debating. She herself felt the hurdles of entering and staying in the debate community whilst moving to Cambridge University for her postgraduate degree.

 This episode includes the following topics: 

 * How the majority in a space can be blind to the adjustments needed to make everyone feel welcome into their club, and how concrete steps can - and must - be made to include this majority;
* How representation in adjudication cores and in organisation, learning from each other's backgrounds, taking complaints seriously, and reaching out to student communities beyond your own can make a real difference to increase the representation of minorities in the debate community;
* how ignorance by the majority in a space can be broken down by patient and good-faith conversation on both ends;
* what we can learn from the rise of women's debating in Ghana.  

IDI hosts conversations about making debate education better. Debate Education is a crucial 21st-century tool to improve young people's critical thinking, civic participation, and public speaking. We talk with leading experts in the field to unlock debate's potential.  IDI is a podcast by the International Debate Education Association.  

A list of further sources accompanying the podcast can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

In this special miniseries we are hosting conversations with some of global debate's leading voices on making debate a more inclusive space.  

In this episode we speak with Noluthando Honono. Noluthando is a prominent voice in the South African debating community. This community organised the Worlds Universities Debating Championships in Cape Town in 2019, and based on some sobering experiences at the tournament Black debaters launched an important conversation on making Worlds far more accessible to all.  

This episode includes the following topics:  

* Some important proposed adjustments to how Worlds is run, including redistribution of reg fees and votes on Council, to make sure debaters from the Global South can actually participate;
* The persistent lack of recognition for second-language debaters by the community, and a suggestion to host a parallel Worlds in French;
* The need to target implicit biases that occur in debate rounds, and the need to improve adjudicator training on this topic;
* The importance of having an open mindset and active listening on conversations surrounding race, prejudice and discrimination.  

IDI hosts conversations about making debate education better. Debate Education is a crucial 21st-century tool to improve young people's critical thinking, civic participation, and public speaking. We talk with leading experts in the field to unlock debate's potential.  

IDI is a podcast by the International Debate Education Association, and is co-financed by the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Union.  

A list of further sources accompanying the podcast can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lar5XRgFi-eQOUfD_2StAb2_YhIFfzOj?usp=sharing  

The proposal for WUDC reform can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mighti-jamie/access-for-africa/10157761430935070/

The video recording of this podcast can be found here: https://youtu.be/fm3Oy7zhAts