Establishing a New Beginning: Justifying "Our" Move to NEDA.

Autor/in	Glenn, Robert J., III
Titel	Establishing a New Beginning: Justifying "Our" Move to NEDA.
Quelle	(1995), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Debate; Debate Format; Higher Education; Public Speaking; Speech Communication; Student Needs; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Debating; Streitgespräch; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Vortrag
Abstract	A speech instructor at Owensboro Community College (Kentucky) found that his switch from the CEDA (Cross Examination Debate Association) speech tournament to the NEDA (National Education Debate Association) speech tournament was beneficial for his students. After the Highland Community College (Kentucky) tournament in January of 1994, the instructor, after years of dedication to the CEDA, began to seriously question the state of CEDA debate. Coaches avoided taking a strong stand against a host of ills, including a persistent violation of the novice eligibility rules, an unresponsive national organization, the employment of nonsensical delivery speeds, incessant brief reading, and counterintuitive argumentation lacking resolutional focus. Since the CEDA stood little chance of reforming, some instructors attended an initial topic selection and planning meeting for the NEDA at Northern Oklahoma College (Tonkawa, Oklahoma). The organization was founded on a number of important standards: (1) lay judges must be used in abundance; (2) a real world delivery style should be embraced by debaters; (3) debate cases and argumentation should focus on the resolution; (4) the novice division should be protected and preserved for truly inexperienced beginners who require a nurturing environment in which to learn the art of debate; and (5) debate topics should be simple enough that any layperson would understand the core intent of the topic selected for debate. The result was that NEDA allowed this instructor's truly novice debaters to compete in a learning-centered environment. (Contains 9 references.) (TB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC