Evidence-based ways to teach debate | interview with Przemek Stolarski of TASA Academy Improve Debate's Impact

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How do we actually help people to improve at debating? Debating is a form of non-formal learning. Most of the time, debate is not taught by teachers or professionals – but by people who debate themselves. Now, this can be very powerful! But at the same time it is important to recognise that there is a difference - and that the best debaters don't always make the best teachers.  That is why I was delighted to have Przemek Stolarski on for this podcast. Przemek is a succesful coach, a Harvard postgraduate researcher into education, and the co-founder of the Think and Speak Academy, which offers online debate courses for high school students. He brings a wealth of practical coaching experience with a strong overview of the academic literature on improving how we teach debate. So this is a very important jumping-off point on how to get better at debating.  



Find out more about TASA Academy here: https://www.tasacademy.pl/  
Read the full essay on why we should teach kids to debate https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/10/why-we-should-teach-kids-to-debate  

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