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Debating is a really useful tool (both in research and pedagogy), but it's structurally adversarial and actually pretty limited in most research and pedagogy. By contrast, collaborative and cooperative approaches form the bulk of our interactions. 1/2
If you find that colleagues and students are refusing to work with you, you might want to consider that you're either too adversarial for constructive collaboration, or your ideas are just repugnant.
As an add on, @WIHEAconnect and @IATL_Warwick kindly funded some students of mine to do a uni-wide project on debate pedagogy. One of the reasons for this was that formal debating is still largely dominated by white men. We can/must do better to make formal debating more...
...inclusive and constructive, but we also need to recognize that many people simply won’t want to engage with a structure that they have to fight to access. They’ll just find other ways to discuss and test ideas. So this whole “debate me” conversation is, to my mind...
...missing the main point: using competitive and adversarial structures cuts out people and good ideas.
