PARTICULAR OBJETIVES

1. To make ENP/CCH’s teachers aware of the importance of the argumentative competence in the teaching and learning processes of any subject or discipline taught in these institutions.

2. To contribute to the education and updating of ENP teachers by means of teaching courses, organizing seminars, colloquia, and also the production of didactic materials such as anthologies, memories, compilations, catalogues, a magazine and a book.

3. To produce strategies, activities and didactic materials specially conceived, designed and developed to teach and learn how to argue in the different subjects and disciplines considered and taught in the ENP Sr. high school system; that is in total compliance to the principles, criteria, and within the frameworks established for such purposes.

4. To conceive, create, research and develop strategies, activities and didactic materials bound to develop and improve the knowledge, abilities, attitudes and necessary values to be able to identify, analyze, understand, evaluate, create, and present arguments, argumentations, and argumentative speeches or writings.

5. To form and consolidate an academic task force fully able to accomplish the above-mentioned task; especially able to research as well as to do work in collegiate and interdisciplinary modes.

6. To work directly with students, not only within the already established limits of regular courses, but also in hands on course-shops, special courses, counseling sessions, and also by means of contests, round tables, publishing a school newsletter, a brochure and a workbook.