Chapter Improving Argumentative Skills in Education: Three Online Discussion Tools

How can we foster sound argumentation and valid criticism in education? How to help students to avoid fallacies, resist polarization, respond wisely to misleading information, and how to make them produce arguments that are genuinely responsive to the position of those they address? I sketch a dialo...

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Main Author: van Laar, Jan Albert (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
Series:Communication and Philosophical Cultures. Researches and Instruments
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