Viewing the Public Sphere With Influentials and Citizens

The currently popular emphasis on democratic discussion in the “public sphere” often is critically viewed by observers commenting on issues of participation, empowerment, and efficacy without input from influentials, whose voices often are the content of public debates. Habermas was critical of the quality of democratic discourse, arguing for an “ideal speech situation” where participants are free to question all proposals; introduce proposals; and express their attitudes, wishes, and needs. This article examines perceptions of the climate of communication in the public sphere by influentials and the general public of a major urban area.     

论网络写作中的读者力量

网络文学是随着科技发展而出现的一种新型文学体裁。它的出现不但打破了传统文学早已固化的创作模式,还帮助读者开辟了与作者互动的新途径。读者介入文学创作不但丰富了网络文学的审美’特质,还给文学的发展带来了新的动力与生机。     

在线协作环境中集体认知责任的干预框架:设计与实践

培养学习者的集体认知责任,既是提高知识建构水平的前提,也是CSCL实践亟待解决的问题。为此,基于知识建构理论与分析框架,构建了培养学生集体认知责任的五类干预策略,包括集体认知责任概念图、在线讨论参与社会网络图、在线协作情况反思表、小组学习契约、对话类型与发言规则。并通过一个大学本科课程班的研究案例,考察这些干预策略在协作讨论不同阶段中应用的效果。案例运用社会网络分析、对话文本的内容分析、问卷调查、访谈等方法,对参与学生的知识贡献意识、互补的知识贡献和知识贡献的广泛参与三方面,进行了分析。研究表明:五类集体认知责任干预策略的应用,都能够促进学生更积极主动地阅读并回复小组成员的观点,平等参与讨论,其中“对话类型与发言规则”在提升集体认知责任和学生知识建构水平方面的干预效果最为显著,可以在较大程度上提高学习者观点的认知复杂度和科学复杂度,促进更高水平的知识建构与对话。这一研究发现,可以为学生集体认知责任与协作能力的培养提供策略支持,也可以为开展线上协作学习活动提供案例参考。     

Socratic Circles in World History: Reflections on a Year in Dialogue

This article examines and offers insights to a year of Socratic circles in the context of a world history classroom. Grounding this practice in relevant research before offering examples from the classroom and providing advice to practitioners, this discussion strategy offers an antidote to the often divisive and destructive examples of interaction in our society, and is a salve to the paucity of true dialogue available to students in the context of a school day. Students benefited by asking better questions, using evidence to support their opinions and arguments, reading more carefully and with a greater sense of purpose, and connecting the past to the present, ultimately gaining perspective on the interplay between ancient times and today.     

浅析现代远程教育对话教育模式的构建

对话教育是在重新审视教育中的师生关系的基础上建立起来的一套理论和主张。现代远程教育与对话教育的关系源远流长,对话深入渗透于现代远程教育中。现代远程教育要全面借鉴对话教育的哲学思想、理论观念、民主意识、实践经验,按照人文关怀、民主平等、自由开放、合作交流的原则,积极培训专职教师、注重资源建设、创造良好环境、提供技术支持,科学构建适合自己的对话教育模式,不断提高教育质量。     

Communication Ethics and Ethical Culture: A Study of the Ethics Initiative in Denver City Government

This article examines the work of the ethics initiative in the City of Denver to see how talk about ethics contributes to an ethical culture. By paying particular attention to the communication in the city's Code of Ethics, ethics training discussion, employee interviews, and formal documents relaying the Board of Ethics' views, we show how ethics emerges within communication. We argue that the emergent quality of ethics is dialogically refined in communication. For practitioners and officials interested in advancing organization-wide ethics training, we urge pursuing dialogical means so that people can negotiate among competing interests to shape future policy and action reflective of their ethical concerns.     

Dialogue as philosophical inquiry in the teaching of tolerance and sympathy

Classroom conversations designed to foster mutual understanding encourage students to listen in a way that is receptive, open, and self-eclipsing. Such an emphasis on tolerance makes these conversations vulnerable to relativism and cynicism. I argue that dialogical philosophical inquiry diminishes such threats, as it fosters mutual appreciation of community and individuality. I offer three reasons for this in the context of a graduate-level course for teachers on dialogical philosophical inquiry. First, the inquiry into shared concepts creates a sense of commonality that transcends differences: all humans seek wisdom irrespective of its form. Second, dialogical philosophical inquiry prompts students to discover the inherent limitations of their perspectives, and to internalize the perspective of the other as a constant in their own thinking. Third, students are given an opportunity to practice relations with others that are informed by the first two points. In dialogical philosophical inquiry students reflect on their thinking together in an effort to improve it. The philosophers referred to in this article include Martin Buber, Nicholas Burbules, Jim Garrison and Leonard Waks.

“对话中心课程”发微

＂对话中心课程＂的是基于课程话语多元性的现实要求,对学生作为＂整体人＂的关注以及知识观的变化而提出的。＂对话中心课程＂建构的依据：课程话语多元性需要理解与对话,学生作为＂整体人＂的发展需要对话机制的课程,知识观的改变诱发复杂的对话实践。追求课程编制过程的对话精神,实现课程目标预设性与生成性的统一,把握课程实施的建构取向,倡导课程内容的生活化,建立师生交互主体性,体现着＂对话中心课程＂的应然走向。     

The teacher shaping and creating dialogues in project work

The background of the work presented in this article is that for quite some time project work has been a method of working that is more theoretically described than it is put into practice. The aim of this text is to show how a teacher can function as a facilitator or a guide for the students within project‐directed teaching and how this setting can enhance the students’ learning. A qualitative method with a focus on dialogues in the classroom was used in the inquiry process. In this article a dialogue between the students in the realization phase of the work is analysed in depth to illustrate how student interaction framed by project work can enhance the students’ learning. In the study Dewey’s, Vygotsky’s and Bakhtin’s theories are used as a theoretical framework and the activity system is used to visualize the work processes in their intertwined context. The outcome of the study shows that learning is inherent in language, but concludes that it demands a great deal of the teacher to create such learning situations.     

Cross-cultural argument interactions between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians

This study examined the argument patterns that result when Israeli-Jews and Palestinians confront each other during group dialogues. We tested predictions derived from two theories. The first was a theory of cultural communication which predicted that Israeli-Jews and Palestinians would argue in a manner consistent with their respective cultural communication codes known as dugri and musayra respectively. Thus, the Israeli-Jews were expected to be assertive and the Palestinians more accommodating. The second theory was rooted in majority/minority power relations and predicted the opposite. The data were generated from reconciliation-based dialogue groups of Israeli-Jews and Palestinians. Communicative acts were coded according to the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme. Analysis of covariance was used to determine which patterns of argument distinguished the groups, and to identify variance attributable to lag sequences and individuals. The results were supportive of predictions from majority/minority power relations.