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Environmental ethics and development.
Debate whether development or environment should be priority!
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Environmental ethics and development.
Structured debate on issues with genuine stakes and contested evidence develops tolerance for complexity — the understanding that legitimate arguments can exist on multiple sides of a real problem. This is the most cognitively sophisticated outcome in education and the rarest in traditional instruction.
1. Assign 4 positions. 2. Research for 10 min. 3. Present 2-min arguments. 4. Rebut. 5. Vote.