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Argument Construction, Argument Evaluation, And Decision-Making: A Content Analysis Of Argumentation And Debate TextbooksCritical thinking abilities, especially the advanced critical thinking abilities required for decision-making, are important to both individuals and democratic policy making processes. Previous studies have indicated that argumentation and debate instruction can improve critical thinking abilities, but there are reasons to believe that current approaches are not as effective at developing decision-making ability as they could be, in part because they focus too heavily on argument construction, rather than argument evaluation and decision-making. In order to test which approaches to teaching argumentation and debate best encourage decision-making abilities, researchers need to know which elements are included in current argumentation and debate textbooks. No comprehensive reviews of the content of argumentation and debate textbooks exist, however, so it has not been possible to test and compare approaches. A content analysis of 73 currently available argumentation and debate textbooks demonstrated that: (a) most textbooks provide students with the basics of argument construction, argumentation theory, and how to evaluate individual claims; (b) many textbooks provide students with important precursors for decision-making; (c) none of the textbooks provides a comprehensive approach to decision-making that includes a structure or framework for approaching evaluation, criteria awareness, reflexivity, and practice. The conclusions include recommendations for further research, textbook selection, textbook revisions, and for instructors to bridge current gaps in textbook coverage with their own material.
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Argument visualisation of the article 'Improving analytical reasoning and argument understanding: a quasi-experimental field study of argument visualization' (Cullen et al., 2018)Argument visualisation of the paper: Cullen, S., Fan, J., van der Brugge, E. et al. Improving analytical reasoning and argument understanding: a quasi-experimental field study of argument visualization. npj Science Learn 3, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-018-0038-5 An interactive version of the argument visualisation can be found on Prezi
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Are ethical arguments for climate change action weaker than self-interest based arguments?"Many commentators to ClimateEthics argue that since people are self-interested beings, it is more important to make arguments in support of climate change based upon self-interest rather than ethical arguments. Some go so far to assert that people don't care about ethics and therefore only self-interest-based arguments should be used to convince people to enact domestic climate change legislation. In other words, they argue:"get real" only self-interest arguments matter. This view has dominated much discussion of climate change policy in the United States. No U.S. politician known to ClimateEthics has been expressly making the ethical arguments that need to be made in response to objections to proposed climate change policies. As ClimateEthics has previously reported, this is not the case in at least a few other parts of the world." (p. 1)
