title: Debate: a strategy for teaching critical thinking.
abstract: Nurses in advanced practice require high-level critical thinking skills. Two elements of critical thinking are discovery and justification. The process of justification is focused on argumentation skills. Using the debate process to analyze, critique, and construct arguments may be an effective teaching-learning technique. Suggestions for the use of debate in graduate nursing curricula are included.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking