A01=Gary Alan Fine
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Adolescence
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American exceptionalism
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Argumentation theory
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Childhood
Controversy
Credibility
Criminology
Custodian bank
Debate
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Deliberation
Direct evidence
Dress code
Elocution
Epic poetry
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Inappropriateness
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Judgement
Logic
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Make A Difference
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Nice guy
Obligation
Opinion evidence
Pejorative
Pep rally
Plea bargain
Policy debate
President of the United States
Prior restraint
Prison overcrowding
Privacy law
Professionalism
Questionnaire
Rebuttal (policy debate)
Salary
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Self-esteem
Self-monitoring
Seriousness
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Slavery
Soliloquy
Spouse
Standardized test
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Tabula rasa
Those People
Time
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Uncertainty
Undergraduate education
Willie Horton
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Youth culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780691074504
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics.
Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.
