Parliamentary debate

Debating word or dispute referred to the implementation of a debate as a sporting competition of speakers. Here Pros and Cons come alternately to word, every speaker tries to refute him randomly assigned position to load and that of the opposite side using common arguments. A jury will judge the debate, defines the ranking of the teams, explaining the decision and helps the speakers using feedback to improve themselves. The Debating is maintained in debating and Debattierturnieren.

Participants are grouped into competing teams and a neutral jury, without the teams of them to be taken positions ( pro or contra ) to select a topic and start the debate usually after 15 minutes of preparation time. The usual talk time per speaker is seven minutes. The exact rules of debate ( eg, the number of teams, the number of speakers per team and the assessment standards ) are determined by the respective agreed debate format, where the student Debating in German-speaking British Parliamentary Style (BPS ) and Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD ) on are common.

The Debating at universities has, especially in the Anglo-Saxon countries have a long tradition. In Britain, the first debating society was founded in 1815 at the University of Cambridge. In the U.S., debating is an integral part of school education. For several years, the debating measure to national and international tournaments. Since the early 1990s, the Debating in Germany is also a trend. The pioneers were some students at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, the debate founded in 1991. 1999 began with the founding of the Berlin Debating Union also oriented development in international competitions. There are now at the university locations in the German speaking over 60 debating.

Large German -speaking competitions for students will take place in particular within the organized by the Association of Debating Societies at Universities series of TIME debates, which consist of five annual nationwide tournaments under the auspices of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. One of them is a German Debating the season highlight of debating. For students, the non-profit Hertie Foundation under the patronage of the Federal President is organizing the Youth Debate project, which is aimed at Secondary School I and II at 660 general education and vocational schools in Germany.