Negotiating a Change in the Argumentation Course: Teaching Cooperative Argument

Williams, David E.; McGee, Brian R.

doi:10.1080/00028533.2000.11951642

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“…An invitational rhetoric may, as Williams and McGee point out, free individuals to be potentially open to "constructive transformation, collapsing the dichotomy between 'persuasion' and 'empathy.'" 82 Foss and Griffin explain that invitational rhetoric may more specifically be useful to a peace community. It may "contribute to the efforts of communication scholars who are working to develop models for cooperative, nonadversarial, and ethical communication."…”

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Elise Boulding's Rhetoric: An Invitation to Peace

Cavin

2006

Peace & Change

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Elise Boulding has been an important voice in the American peace movement. In this paper, I examine Boulding's speeches with the goal of continuing the critique of peace rhetors toward the discovery of a peace rhetoric theory. The implications are clear that when there is a potential for conflict and war, the critique of rhetorical strategies used can lead to a better understanding of how people can learn to live peacefully with one another. Sonja J. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin's invitational rhetoric is a useful starting point to highlight some important features of Boulding's rhetoric.And finally, we need imagination to create in our minds a peaceably adventurous, challenging, complex, fun society. I get very uneasy with the talk about futures because it sounds so dull. A conflict-free future, who wants it? Kenneth and I wouldn't want it; then we couldn't have all those wonderful conflicts that we have had. The twenty-first century has to be something we want. If it doesn't look good to us, it won't empower us for action in the present.-Elise Boulding 1While trying to develop a comprehensive peace discourse theory, I have been researching and writing about the rhetoric of peace for some time. My aim has been to discover common rhetorical frames, metaphors, symbols, linguistic strategies, or verbal paradigms that may be consistently employed by those advocating a shift in social attitudes about violence prevention. My search for a common structure by which speech acts become effective means of violence prevention has included forays into viewing the seeds of global conflict as related to the contention arising out of a dysfunctional interpersonal relationship, aggressors attacking too well-known others out of a need to have the seemingly mutually exclusive relational states of autonomy and connectedness.

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Elise Boulding's Rhetoric: An Invitation to Peace

Cavin

2006

Peace & Change

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“…Drawing on pedagogical models like Williams and McGee's (2000), the negotiation skills course would emphasize the teaching of both competitive and cooperative arguments. Adults in this course would learn about types of negotiation, including those distributive, integrative, attitudinal or intraorganizational (Walton & McKersie, 1965).…”

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Adult Learning for Self and Relational Growth (ALG)

Borrás¹

2016

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“…7 Academic debate is also part of thousands of argumentation courses taught in Communication departments across the country. While those courses still focus primarily and at times exclusively on debate, they do connect thousands of students to policy argument, and there have been recent moves to add more cooperative, dialogical, and deliberative components to the course (Czubaroff, 2007;Hyde & Binenam, 2000;Makau, 1990;Makau & Marty, 2001;Williams & McGee, 2000), or otherwise make debate more civic-minded (Mitchell, 2010, Munksgaard & Pfister, 2005. Alternatively, feminist theories of rhetoric have also developed that question the value of argumentative perspectives and seek to develop a more "invitational" rhetorical style focused on developing understanding and mutual respect (Bone et al , 2008;Foss & Griffin, 1995).…”

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Communication Studies and Deliberative Democracy: Current Contributions and Future Possibilities

Carcasson

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2010

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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This essay provides an overview of what is currently being done in the discipline of communication studies that can advance deliberative democracy, particularly in terms of student learning, and explores how those connections could be strengthened and extended. The essay is divided into three main sections. First, a brief history of the field of communication studies is provided. Next, four questions relevant to deliberative theory and practice are introduced and the teaching and research of communication scholars that provides significant responses are examined: (1) how do we improve how citizens process information and exercise judgment?, (2) how do we best deal the differences in our increasingly diverse communities?, (3) how can we better understand the processes and outcomes of deliberation?, and (4) what are the key future directions for deliberative theory and practice? Within this section, a number of the sub-fields within communication studies that connect directly or indirectly to deliberative work are introduced. The essay concludes with a review of the limitations to these connections and a "call to action" for increased public engagement.

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Negotiating a Change in the Argumentation Course: Teaching Cooperative Argument

Cited by 6 publications

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Elise Boulding's Rhetoric: An Invitation to Peace

Elise Boulding's Rhetoric: An Invitation to Peace

Adult Learning for Self and Relational Growth (ALG)

Communication Studies and Deliberative Democracy: Current Contributions and Future Possibilities

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