Chrysi RapantaChrysi Rapanta (Ph.D. Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, 2011) is a researcher at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Her research has always been highly interdisciplinary, focused on the use o argumentation theory in the fields of education, communication, and computer-supported collaborative learning. Before joining the Universidade Nova, she worked as an assistant professor of business communication at Zayed University, an Emirati educational institute in Dubai. Her most recent research focuses on teacher education, specifically on assisting in-service middle-grade teachers in their experience and application of argument-based teaching in different disciplinary fields. She has published in major international peer-reviewed journals such as Review of Educational Research, British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal of Philosophy of Education, and Informal Logic. She is the author of Argumentation Strategies in the Classroom (Vernon Press, 2019) and co-author of Managerial Communication for the Arabian Gulf (Business Expert Press, 2016). Read More Read Less