This book explores teaching argument in ways that take into account the complexities and pluralities young people face as they attempt to enact local and global citizenship with others who may reasonably disagree. The focus is foremost on social action.

Jennifer Clifton is Assistant Professor, Department of English (Rhetoric and Writing Studies), The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Provisional Knowing and the Need for Argument

Chapter 2: Dynamic and Distributed Argument: Youth and Contemporary Public Life

Chapter 3: Constructing Shared Concerns and Alternative Practices of Argument in Public Life

Chapter 4: Argument as Dialogue Across Difference: The Praxis of Public Life