the bin welcomes back Matt Stannard to discuss his new project, and his new essay all about the power and potential of non-adversarial debate alternatives.

Matt is a co-founder of CoLab Debate an Oregon-based nonprofit learning center for debate and collaborative leadership. It's a very cool, stimulating, and ambitious project to offer debate education that goes beyond the tournament.

Matt wrote a post on the Colab Debate website, titled Shouldn't Everyone Debate? that I found fascinating and asked him a bunch of questions about as well!

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I don’t normally share my actual class lectures publically, but I was pleased with this orientation to debating lecture I recently gave to my public speaking students as an introduction to what “comes next” after you become engaged with rhetoric at the base level of a speech course.

In this lecture I try to orient the class to the idea of debate as a discourse, a part of rhetoric, and try to dissociate debate from the negative assumptions we make about it from our culture of rhetorical poverty.

This could be dangerous!

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