TY - JOUR
T1 - Debating the Issues and Finding a Middle Ground
AU - Rinfret, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Political Science Association 2019.
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - Contemporary political discourse often presents controversial policy topics (e.g., public lands, climate change, and immigration) in a bimodal manner - either for or against. As a result, can our classrooms provide a space for students to learn how to construct solutions that broker various perspectives? For students to reconcile policy differences, I designed a series of debate panels across a semester. The focus of this article is to describe the details of the debate panels so they can be replicated in educational settings. Moreover, the debate panels embody active or experiential learning for students to become informed participants of US public-policy making.
AB - Contemporary political discourse often presents controversial policy topics (e.g., public lands, climate change, and immigration) in a bimodal manner - either for or against. As a result, can our classrooms provide a space for students to learn how to construct solutions that broker various perspectives? For students to reconcile policy differences, I designed a series of debate panels across a semester. The focus of this article is to describe the details of the debate panels so they can be replicated in educational settings. Moreover, the debate panels embody active or experiential learning for students to become informed participants of US public-policy making.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049096519000076
DO - 10.1017/S1049096519000076
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066791646
SN - 1049-0965
VL - 52
SP - 527
EP - 530
JO - PS - Political Science and Politics
JF - PS - Political Science and Politics
IS - 3
ER -