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Título: TC: Debate for Understanding
Duração: 9 dias de 03-04-2018 a 11-04-2018
Idades dos participantes: Dos 19 aos 30 anos
Jovens portugueses: 1
Líderes portugueses: 0
Número total de participantes: 1
Idioma: Inglês
Países participantes: Portugal
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Resumo: Presidential debates, debates in the YouTube comment section and even the so called “state of art” Oxford or Intelligence Squared debates have one thing in common – they are as popular as they are useless. People enjoy
watching them rather as a wrestling match than a source of correct facts and arguments. People themselves are first
to blame – as they aren’t ready to change their minds about such hotly debated topics as accepting refugees, climate
change, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, sanctions against Russia. However, debaters too are guilty as
most are mere pundits and spin-doctors who use rhetoric instead of logic, reply with ad hominem attacks or avoid the
response altogether, even carefully craft lies to create confusion or prove their point to gullible audience.
Objectivos: This training course will be based on experiential learning: experiencing different activities, facing different situations
and coming to one’s own conclusions in a debate. It will promote the idea of collaborative (instead of competitive)
debating, including:
- understanding the opponent’s perspective,
- helping your opponent by improving his arguments,
- trying to disprove your own argument,
- creating a practical format of real-time collaborative debating,
- using online collaborative (wiki) debating tools,
- psychology of changing minds (for good),
- philosophy of truth in the debate framework,
- being friendly, polite and ethical towards opponent,
- detecting and disarming rhetorical tricks,
- detecting logical mistakes and correcting them.
Alojamento: Travel and visa expenses will be reimbursed fully if you don’t exceed your expense limit depending on your calculated
travel distance to Ogre, Latvia After the approval of your application we will send you detailed instructions how to get
to Riga city and possible flight/bus options which after our approval you (or your organisation) should book yourself as
soon as possible before the price has skyrocketed. Travel reimbursement will be transferred in EUR currency to your
bank account on April 12-19 provided you have submitted all the tickets, boarding passes, invoices and receipts (we
recommend to book all your tickets online and submit all these digital travel documents before/during the training).
The accommodation, 3 meals a day and coffee breaks will be covered fully by “ERASMUS+” Mobility of Youth Workers.
Descrição: At the second half of the training participants are be expected to create their own collaborative debating event,
material or tool which they must bring to their home country and organize as a follow-up activity with real audience
which participant will share online with other participants as well as to the general public as widely as possible. Please
prepare an idea and discuss it within your organisation.
Material Necessário: Please bring your digital device (laptop, tablet or smartphone) where you can comfortably type longer texts to
participate in online debates. We will provide free Wi-Fi in the training centre.
