Promoting Students’ Multicultural Awareness through Debate

Saiful Batubara, Irpan Apandi Batubara

2018

Abstract

Debate has been familiar to students in Medan. At least, 10 competitions are held in Medan every year since 2014. Debate Competitions involved students from inter-institutions. The competitions create interaction among students (debaters) from different institutions. Furthermore, the motions that released in debate competitions are also debatable upon minority and majority perspective (social and humanity motion). Therefore, debate not only remains interaction among debaters, its social motion, but also contains the matter of multiculturalism. This qualitative study is aimed at analyzing the effect of advanced interaction among the debaters. The subject of the study is debaters from Universitas Muslim Nusantara Al Washliyah, Medan Debaters Forum and Universitas Sumatera Utara. The study found that the students’ attention on multiculturalism has been managed. The existence of understanding in their interactions is a form of awareness among them. Other than that, the motion of multiculturalism constitutes one of the topics that is always chosen by the debate committee as the debating topic.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Batubara S. and Batubara I. (2018). Promoting Students’ Multicultural Awareness through Debate.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR, ISBN 978-989-758-437-4, pages 641-644. DOI: 10.5220/0008891706410644

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmr18,
author={Saiful Batubara and Irpan Apandi Batubara},
title={Promoting Students’ Multicultural Awareness through Debate},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,},
year={2018},
pages={641-644},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008891706410644},
isbn={978-989-758-437-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,
TI - Promoting Students’ Multicultural Awareness through Debate
SN - 978-989-758-437-4
AU - Batubara S.
AU - Batubara I.
PY - 2018
SP - 641
EP - 644
DO - 10.5220/0008891706410644