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  • This house supports the dominance of non-interventionism in fieldwork research in the social sciences.

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    Interventionism in the social sciences involves giving significant money or resources to participants, developing relationships with participants outside of research, having participants co-design studies, explicitly acknowledging their help when publishing, etc. Fieldwork research involves collecting data in a natural or real-world setting rather than a controlled experiment. Fieldwork typically includes participant interviews, observations and surveys. Examples of fieldwork research include: interviewing prisoners, surveying victims in a post-natural disaster area, surveying political beliefs, etc.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-09-27

  • THP the establishment of an inclusive literary canon to the establishment of any literal canon.

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    "Literary canon" refers to an established set of works that are considered high-culture and have achieved the status of "classics". An inclusive literary canon refers to one in which works from authors of diverse backgrounds-and often more contemporary works-are considered part of that canon.

    CranesTrials25 online · Round 5 · 2025-09-23

  • This house believes that college graduates should prioritize being career generalists over career specialists

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    Career generalists have a wide spectrum of knowledge (e.g. gaining skills that you can use in various industries), while career specialists are subject matter experts in their areas of study (e.g., staying in one industry, getting specialist trainings, pursuing higher education).

    Yearning Youth Debate Series - Summer World Schools 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-09-20

  • This house believes that students should prioritize completing multiple short courses rather than a few degrees over the course of their career

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    A course is a single unit of study focused on a specific topic, like "Introduction to Psychology". In contrast, a degree is an academic qualification earned by successfully completing a program consisting of multiple, interconnected courses, often over several years, providing comprehensive knowledge in a particular field.

    tabserverofturkey Online Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-13

  • This house prefers the controlled model to the flexible model

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    For the purposes of this debate, there are two models through which teacher training and hiring can be done. Under the controlled model, the government or the central authority sets strict qualifications for entry into the teaching profession, imposes rigorous training programs, and maintains strong oversight over recruitment, certification, and professional development of teachers. In contrast, under the flexible model, entry qualifications and training requirements are generally more relaxed, and local authorities or individual schools have more control over hiring and training of the teachers.

    IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Round 2 · 2025-09-12

  • This house prefers the current model over the revamp

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    The current Gifted Education Programme (GEP) system aims to identify intellectually gifted students through a two-stage exercise in Primary 3. Those selected are invited to join one of the nine designated primary schools offering the programme. Starting from the 2024 Primary 1 cohort, every primary school will now be equipped with resources to identify their own high-ability students from Primary 4 to 6 and run their own school-based programmes to nurture these students in their area of strengths and interests, instead of the current centralised programme. The revamp will also take into account recommendations from teachers, instead of the current system where it is solely assessment- based. The revamp is expected to increase the number of students admitted into GEP to about 10% of each cohort, while it was previously from around 1% in the current system.

    Youth Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-08

  • This house supports the idea of "derusting".

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    Derusting is a debate term which refers to experienced debaters masquerading to debate in high school tournaments, often breaking and at times even failing to break. They argue that they want to use it as a platform to improve themselves but also give value to tournaments. However, students argue that they are traumatized by the existence of such speakers.

    Oratorical Arena 2.0 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-05

  • This house would allow lump-sum scholarships as an alternative to periodic disbursements.

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    In many universities, scholarships are given in installments (e.g., monthly or per semester) to cover tuition and living expenses. A lump-sum scholarship gives the recipient the full amount upfront.

    Baguio Detour 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-30

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of Social Justice Movements to aggressively adopt Hiraeth

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    Hiraeth" is a philosophy which suggests that lived experiences or first hand accounts of individuals are definitive sources of legitimacy, prioritizing direct testimony over abstract theory or distant expertise.

    K Pre-ABP Debate 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-23

  • In states with a past history of ethnic tensions, This house supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system

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    Two schools under one roof is a term for schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the ethnic segregation of children. Children from different ethnic groups, attend classes in the same building, but physically separated from each other and taught separate curricula.

    Diliman Pre-Asian British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-23

  • This house, as a tenured professor in medium-sized state university, should heavily prioritize longitudinal basic research as opposed to applied research.

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    Longitudinal basic research examines the same social phenomenon over long and extended periods of time (e.g., race-based violence, socially-constructed gender roles) On the other hand, applied research is mostly small-scale, and short-termist research on timely social phenomenon which provides academic outputs that can be immediately utilized by specific groups of people (e.g., election- associated violence in Mindanao, feminism within Islamic communities)

    7th Bicol Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-23