Development of critical thinking, argumentation, public affairs and socio-personal skills through debate

Torres-Chavarría L. · Educacion y Humanismo (2025) · DOI: 10.17081/eduhum.27.48.6029

Resumen

Objective: to analyze the debate to identify the development of argumentation, critical thinking, deliberation of public affairs and personal and social competencies in 5th grade secondary school students in a private school in Lima, Peru. Methodology: the qualitative approach with descriptive level was used. The information was collected with the focus group technique and the semi-structured interview. The case consisted of two focus groups with a total of 20 participants from the 5th grade of secondary school considering the inclusion criteria. The informants' voices were used as a starting point through the inductive method, coded into categories with Open and Axial Coding. Triangulation was carried out among informants. Results: the debate strategy has been shown to develop critical thinking, argumentation, public affairs and socio-personal skills in students during their basic education. Conclusions: it was concluded that debate promotes critical attitudes, reflection, evaluation and analysis; it fosters argumentative, personal, social, academic and communicative skills; it is evident that public affairs are deeply deliberated, and active citizenship is favored in students.

Instituciones: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón