Debating
Debating or verbal dispute referred conducting a debate as a sporting competition of speakers . The pros and cons alternately have their say, with each speaker trying to refute the position assigned to him and refute that of the other side with arguments that are easy to understand. A jury evaluates the debate, determines the ranking of the teams, explains the decision and helps the speakers to improve through feedback. The Debating is in debating maintained and Debattierturnieren.
The participants are grouped into competing teams and a neutral jury, assign the positions they represent (for or against) to the teams, choose a topic and usually start the debate after 15 minutes of preparation time. The usual speaking time per speaker is seven minutes. The exact rules of the debate (for example the number of teams, the number of speakers per team and the assessment criteria) are determined by the respective agreed debate format, whereby in student debates in German-speaking countries British Parliamentary Style (BPS) and Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD) on are the most common.
Debating at universities has a long tradition, especially in the Anglo-Saxon region. In Great Britain, the first debating club was founded in 1815 at the University of Cambridge . In the US, debating is part of school education; Debating is very often offered as an extra-curricular program (“club”), less often as a subject (elective). The debating clubs have been competing at national and international tournaments for several years. Debating has also been a trend in Germany since the early 1990s. Some students at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , who founded the Tübingen Debate in 1991, were pioneers . In 1999, with the founding of the Berlin Debating Union , a development based on international competitions began. There are now over 60 debating clubs at the university locations in German-speaking countries.
Large German-language competitions for students take place in particular within the series of campus debates organized by the Association of Debating Clubs at Universities . One of them is the German debating championship, the highlight of the season. Under the patronage of the Federal President , the non-profit Hertie Foundation organizes the youth debates project for schoolchildren, which is aimed at pupils in secondary levels I and II at 660 general and vocational schools in Germany.
In addition, the JCI international association also offers debating as a competition for the German Business Juniors. Within the association, debating is often practiced with the established Iron Communication training by René Elsässer and held in German as part of a championship at the WJD federal conferences and occasionally at the JCI European conference and in 2014 for the first time at the JCI World Congress (Leipzig).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities: Debating. The basic idea
- ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities: Where does the debating come from? ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Campus Debates | VDCH. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
