Competing and Consensual Voices : The title: Theory and Practice of Argument Language and Education Library ; 8 author: Costello, Patrick J. M.; Mitchell, Sally publisher: Multilingual Matters isbn10 | asin: 1853592773 print isbn13: 9781853592775 ebook isbn13: 9780585195735 language: English Reasoning--Study and teaching-- Congresses, Debates and debating-- subject Congresses, Questioning--Study and teaching--Congresses, Logic--Study and teaching--Congresses. publication date: 1995 lcc: LB1590.3.C65 1995eb ddc: 371.3/7 Reasoning--Study and teaching-- Congresses, Debates and debating-- subject: Congresses, Questioning--Study and teaching--Congresses, Logic--Study and teaching--Congresses. Page i Competing and Consensual Voices Page ii THE LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION LIBRARY Series Editor Professor David Corson, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6 Other Books in the Series Critical Theory and Classroom Talk ROBERT YOUNG Language Policy Across the Curriculum DAVID CORSON Language, Minority Education and Gender DAVID CORSON Making Multicultural Education Work STEPHEN MAY School to Work Transition in Japan KAORI OKANO Reading Acquisition Processes G.B. THOMPSON, W.E. TUNMER and T. NICHOLSON (eds) Worlds of Literacy M. HAMILTON, D. BARTON and R. IVANIC (eds) Other Books of Interest An Education that Empowers JEAN RUDDUCK (ed.) The Guided Construction of Knowledge NEIL MERCER A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism COLIN BAKER Psychology, Spelling and Education C. STERLING and C. ROBSON (eds) The Open University Readers Language and Literacy in Social Practice JANET MAYBIN (ed.) Language, Literacy and Learning in Educational Practice BARRY STIERER and JANET MAYBIN (eds) Media Texts: Authors and Readers DAVID GRADDOL and OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT (eds) Researching Language and Literacy in Social Context DAVID GRADDOL, JANET MAYBIN and BARRY STIERER (eds) Please contact us for the latest book information: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ, England Page iii LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION LIBRARY 8 Series Editor: Professor David J. Corson The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Competing and Consensual Voices: The Theory and Practice of Argument Patrick J.M. Costello and Sally Mitchell MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon Philadelphia Adelaide Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Competing and Consensual Voices: The Theory and Practice of Argument Edited by Patrick J.M. Costello and Sally Mitchell (The Language and Education Library: 8) Result of an International Conference held at the University of York, March 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Reasoning-Study and teaching-Congresses. 2. Debates and debating-Congresses. 3. Questioning-Study and teaching-Congresses. 4. Logic-Study and teaching-Congresses. I. Costello, Patrick J.M., 1959- . II. Mitchell, Sally. III. Series. LB1590.3.C65 1995 371.3'7-dc20 95-6553 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1-85359-277-3 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-276-5 (pbk) Multilingual Matters Ltd UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ. USA: 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA. Australia: P.O. Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. Copyright © C 1995 Patrick J.M. Costello, Sally Mitchell and the authors of individual chapters. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Typeset by Bookcraft, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Print, Bridgend. Page v Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Argument: Voices, Texts and Contexts 1 Patrick J.M. Costello and Sally Mitchell 1 10 Situating the Teaching and Learning of Argumentation Within Historical Contexts Maureen Daly Goggin 2 23 Ushering in the Tigers of Wrath: Playfulness and Rationality in Learning to Argue Stephen Clarke 3 35 Narrative in Argument, Argument in Narrative Mike Baynham 4 50 Argument as a Key Concept in Teacher Education Gareth Harvard and Richard Dunne 5 68 Argument, Dialogue and Religious Pluralism: Reflections on the Current State of Religious Education in Britain Howard Gibson and Jo Backus 6 84 Argument and Science Education Carolyn J. Boulter and John K. Gilbert 7 99 Raised and Erased Voices: What Special Cases Offer to Argument James McGonigal 8 112 Extending Children's Voices: Argument and the Teaching of Philosophy Patrick J.M. Costello 9 131 Conflict and Conformity: The Place of Argument in Learning a Discourse Sally Mitchell