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2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina Leadership Program
Exact dates TBA. Eighteen high school students and three teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) attend the highly interactive Youth Leadership Program and accompanying Teacher Professional Development Program, in Salem, Oregon, and Washington, DC.
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Is internationalisation a threat to university education?
IDEA presents a student debate in the British Parliamentary format during the Going Global 2012 conference hosted by the British Council.
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IDEA Exchange 2012 in Vilnius
Workshops and tournaments in the British Parliamentary, World Schools and Karl Popper formats in Lithuania
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China Open 2012
Willamette University, the International Debate Education Association, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics proudly announce the Third Annual China Open to be held on May 25 - 27, 2012.
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IDEA Forum 2012
Join over 300 debaters from over 50 countries in Mexico next summer! IDEA and Universidad Iberoamericana from Leon, Mexico are organizing International IDEA Youth Forum between 2-15th July 2012. To learn more about the Forum, its educational tracks, debat
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Teachers around the world are discovering that debate offers a powerful tool for enlivening their teaching and energizing their students. When students engage in debate, they take an active role in their education, and subjects which once may have seemed dull and abstract come vividly to life. In preparing to debate a controversial question, such as “Can capital punishment be justified?” or “Should NATO have intervened in Kosovo?”, students undertake a wide range of learning processes. They ask themselves what these questions mean to them personally; they research the social, political, ethical and historical contexts in which the issues are situated; and they learn to see complex problems from widely different perspectives. Because this learning is geared toward a specific purpose - performing well in the debate itself - students have added incentive and a clear goal to work toward. And when teachers use debate, they act as more than dispensers of information to a classroom of passive students. They become facilitators of a learning process that enables students to become more deeply and more actively invested in their education.

 
 

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