Impact of debates in the classroom: Strengthening textual production and teacher education
RPGE – Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 28, n. 00, e023007, 2024. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v28i00.19111 6
argues that this education must involve a deeper process, as it includes reflection, research,
practical action, discovery, organization, and theoretical foundation, in addition to constant
review. Essentially, true continuing education begins with a critical analysis of teaching
practice, suggesting that the professional development of educators should be a holistic and
reflective process.
It is within the scope of teacher education that debate emerges as a teaching-learning
strategy for the communicative act in the classroom; thus, debate is established as a tool that
empowers individuals’ communicative skills. Through reflective and critical discussions,
educators can develop a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by
retextualization, making them better prepared to assist students in such processes of
textualization and retextualization.
According to Dolz, Schneuwly and Pietro (2004), debate puts essential skills in
communication into play and, in personal development, covers several areas; from a linguistic
point of view, it includes techniques for resuming and responding to other people's speech, as
well as elements of refutation. In the cognitive aspect, critical ability is central; socially, it is
essential to develop the ability to listen and respect others. Individually, the ability to position
oneself, to define a personal stance and the construction of one's own identity stands out.
This interactive communication format allows information, ideas, and perspectives to
be constantly reformulated, adapted, and reconfigured to meet the demands of the discursive
context. In this sense, Dolz, Schneuwly and Pietro (2004) argue that the objective of teaching
should include reflection on several aspects, such as the orientation and effectiveness of
arguments in texts, the ability to make concessions, the appropriate choice of words, the opening
and closing of interactions, the ability to listen to others, as well as to reformulate the speech,
responsibility in enunciation. Furthermore, they include the use of argumentative resources,
such as examples and quotations.
It is in this vein that, from the practical environment, retextualization occurs, allowing
students to manipulate and transform texts with awareness and competence. As observed by
Bordenave and Pereira (2015), teaching tactics help to build student knowledge through
individual interpretations. Such strategies enable students to interact and share their
understanding, in addition to enabling them to analyze various information and apply it in their
respective life contexts.
Debate, as a teaching-learning strategy, encourages the exchange of ideas between
students, allowing different perspectives on the same issue to be presented by them. According