Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2018)

The Influence of Debate on Chinese College Students’ Critical Thinking Disposition: A Multiple Case Study Based on Paul-Elder Model of Critical Thinking

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Yanan Hu
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Yanan Hu
Available Online August 2018.
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10.2991/icesem-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Debate; Intellectual traits; Paul-Elder Model of Critical Thinking; Multiple case study
Abstract

In China, compared with the growing enthusiasm in debate among Chinese students, research in this field is relatively weak. Therefore, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of how forensic participation influence students’ critical thinking, especially their intellectual disposition, I conducted this multiple case study based on Paul-Elder Model of Critical Thinking. My research question is “How does Chinese college students’ critical thinking disposition change as a result of participating in debate?” After six month’s observation on the debate team and three face-to-face interviews with each respondent, I found that forensic participation helps developing student’s intellectual traits, which are indispensable to critical thinking skills. Moreover, forensic participation helps the students to get rid of ego-centric and socio-centric thinking, which paves the way for them to become real critical thinkers.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Economic Management (ICESEM 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2018
ISBN
10.2991/icesem-18.2018.5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icesem-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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