The history classroom: A role for debate in the thematic approach

College Debate and Effective Writing: An Argument for Debate in the Public Administration Curriculum

“…Even more to the point, a recent article in Communication Education advocates using debate in history classes. This device, say Huseman and Goodman ( 1977), will promote three skills: "research competence, evaluation and recognition of assumptions, and effective Downloaded by [University of California Santa Barbara] at 15:45 17 June 2016 presentation of ideas." More broadly, they maintain that speech and debate teachers should "reemphasize the debate format as a useful teaching device in classrooms other than their own."…”