Development of argumentation skills in IBT

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ENContemporary educational paradigms focus not only on the production of knowledge, but are beginning to focus more and more on the effective application/integration/ manipulation/ etc. of existing information and knowledge. In such context inquiry based teaching and learning (IBT/L) is especially relevant because of its investigation via argumentation nature. For this reason the research presented in the current paper is designed for the diagnostics of the existing teachers‟ argumentation skills and their development after the dissemination and implementation of European Council Framework 7 Programme project S-TEAM ideas on the argumentation in IBT/L. The analysis of scientific literature sources highlighted the structure, types of arguments and the model of argumentative competence. The main research method is the complex case study, the data analysis of which enabled to identify the prevailing teachers‟ argumentation skills and their development after the seminars presented for students of teacher professional development programme in Kaunas University of Technology via distant learning classes. Keywords: IBT/L, argumentation, argumentation competence. [From the publication]