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Download full textLeeman, Richard W. – 1987
Argumentation courses, which emphasize the theories of argumentation, and debate courses, which teach competitive debate, can effectively teach critical thinking, training students to see situations from a variety of perspectives and then to evaluate those perspectives for their relative merit. William G. Perry maps out nine stages by which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Critical Thinking, Debate, Decision Making
