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Second intensive 2-day debate
training was held on the 9th-10th of April within the
second year of “Jadal shababe” project. Twenty-eight Arab university students
from different geographical areas participated in the debate training within
“Jadal Shababe” project, which is a joint project of four NGOs, the Arab
Association for Human Rights, the Follow Up Committee on Arab Education, the
Arab Cultural Association and the Association for Arab Youth-Baladna.
The training included workshops
for (1) debate skills development (2) the use of debate methods and techniques
(3) reality analysis through critical and in-depth perspective and (4) speech
skills development and public speaking.
The project aims to form a tool
for Arab Youth to develop their selves and their personality in addition to
glazing the art of interlocution and compellation, which the official education
curriculum does not grant. The participation in “Jadal Shababe” project provides
young people the opportunity to enlarge their mentality and speaking capacities,
thus, to run a discussion or a debate logically. Furthermore, it offers youth
the chance to train on organizing their ideas and arguments rationally and
persuasively.
Najwan Berekdar, the
project administrative Coordinator, considers this training to be successful and
fruitful. The debates that took place the second day point out a high level of
seriousness preparation knowledge and awareness among the coaches, and their
increased desire to advance their skills following an intensive debates
practice. She adds that among the most important goals of this project, aside
from strengthening their national identity, increasing the level of awareness
among youth, encouraging subjective edification and knowledge, mooring the
foundations of a civilized rational discussion in different issues that concerns
the Arab Palestinian Society inside Israel, particularly, its young
generation. The coaches have expressed their benefit from this training in which
the coordinators of the project handed them the skills and techniques of debate.
“Jadal Shababe” project
funded by the Open Society Institute-OSI and Welfare
Association is the only debate project in our society and being
implemented for the second year now. The project included the publication of the
first debate manual in Arabic and a debate film in Arabic.
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