Analytical Dialogue Research Articles

“Winterreise”. Sci-Arts Winter Season Journey Through the Human-Nature Relationships of the Land-Sea Continuum, from North Sea to Baltic Sea

Crossing art and science, this text explores topographically the category of Land-Sea, both in the field, during collection phases, and from a more analytical point of view. To this end, it draws on collective surveys carried out between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, focusing in particular on the question of the winter season. This article thus engages in a methodological and analytical dialogue between different complementary approaches, with the aim of deciphering, in depth, territorial socio-ecosystemic complexities, between mutations and perpetuations.

Perdebatan Realisme-Antirealisme dalam Filsafat Agama Kontemporer

This article starts from the ontological problem in the discourse on the philosophy of religion, namely between the realist and anti-realist poles. The two are differentiated from the way of understanding the world, where realists believe that there is a world that is independent of mind and consciousness (mind-independent world) while anti-realists believe that the world, including perspectives on it, is completely dependent on the intentionality of the subject, so it is only a construction of mind and consciousness. Regarding religion, for realists, religion and its substance truly refer to objective reality, while anti-realists believe that religion is fictitious because it is only a construction of the mind and consciousness, not referring to objective reality. This debate also implies a disagreement between theism and atheism, especially in the context of the ontological status of religion and the epistemic status of religion. This article wants to explain that a believer is definitely a realist. This realist attitude is confirmed through an ontological commitment to the existence of God. However, the semantic construction of divinity is in the domain of mind and consciousness. The object of representation exists in a world independent of the mind, while the content of the representation exists within the influence and determination of the mind. This has consequences for the subject's plurality of meanings of the world. Regarding the theism-atheism dialogue pattern, this article offers a more analytical dialogue pattern, namely dialogue that is not theologically centric. This means that the debate is more directed at how to talk about God, not just about God's existence.

Exploring the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) risk rituals: individualisation, uncertainty and social iatrogenesis

HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) consists of a daily antiretroviral regimen that prevents HIV acquisition. In this article, we discuss ways in which individuals on PrEP deal with risks and uncertainties through their life experiences amid PrEP risk rituals and rational and non-rational individualisation processes. We analysed data from a web-based group of mostly gays, bisexuals and other men who have sex with men on PrEP through a thematic-content approach. We found that individuals, influenced by medical and health institutions, were involved in ‘risk rituals’ with profound effects on their subjective embodiment, emotions and feelings. These processes became amalgamated into conflicting objective consequences to themselves and their social networks, which included the acquisition of new diseases amid increasing ambivalences of being on PrEP. Our theoretical argument is that risk rituals were symptomatic of social iatrogenesis amid the contemporary risk and individualised society. By developing an analytical dialogue between our empirical data and modernisation theories of risk and individualisation, we sought to understand risk rituals through conflict, relational, group and institutional domains, as these layers of analysis help us grasp the core characterisation of social iatrogenesis. Drawing on these insights, we also pay attention to potential futures of injectable PrEP, considering the role of hope, the collective production of the unknown and medical action as a type of intensification of risk rituals and social iatrogenesis.

Defeat and Division: France at War 1939-1942

Here are two thought-provoking books to savour and keep for reference. Emeritus Professor Douglas Porch’s Defeat and Division: France at War 1939-1942 is a thorough, engrossing and authoritative study of France’s armed forces, set in their political and social context. It is part narrative, part extended analytical dialogue with the existing literature. He offers his readers plenty of trenchant observations. After a short introduction, this first of two volumes begins with a succinct survey of French defence policy in the inter-war period (Chapter 1). Porch believes that while French governments of the 1930s—including the Popular Front—spent large amounts of money on modernizing their armed forces, rearmament was patchy. Production quotas could not be met, because industry was too old-fashioned and mismanaged. Rearmament was in the hands of ‘a multifaceted, Balkanized military organization, whose leadership lacked a coherent defence vision for inter-arm and inter-service cooperation.’ In seeking to determine how ready France’s armed forces were to face the German onslaught in May 1940 (Chapter 2), Porch concludes that the Third Republic failed to ‘socialize’ its soldiers and civilians for the coming struggle, partly due to ‘faulty strategic analysis [and] wishful thinking’. Furthermore, ‘given the negative reports on the state of readiness of French and British troops, and bottlenecks in the French armaments industry due to a lack of centralized planning, the prognosis was not good’.

Critical friendship as vital to the development of RPCK

PurposeThe purpose of this manuscript is to reveal how a White social studies teacher educator attempted to go from being a non-racist educator to an anti-racist educator (King and Chandler, 2016) and build her racial pedagogical content knowledge (RPCK).Design/methodology/approachThis manuscript is on part of a collaborative self-study. The authors used critical friendship (Schuck and Russell, 2005) and RPCK as the conceptual framework. The authors used self-study research methodology to analyze and interrogate analytical reflections, course syllabi, and course assignments. All data were analyzed through intentional and analytical dialogue over the course of weekly debriefs and three formal debriefing sessions.FindingsFindings from this study indicate that while stressful and challenging at times, the critical friendship with Taylor was vital in developing her RPCK. The friendship liberated and brought voice to her traditional, racialized self through intentional and analytic dialogue. This dialogue benefited the curricular review she was conducting on her content methods course to develop and integrate RPCK to her pedagogical mind.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors show that critical friendships can transform definitions of self and pedagogical practice. If social studies teacher educators are going to do the work of anti-racism, then it is our suggestion that they form a critical friendship to support their self-growth and pedagogical intentions before suggesting pedagogical innovations.Practical implicationsThis paper includes visual representation of RPCK that will allow other social studies teacher educators to teach the concept to their students. It also provides a framework to support others who want to work on their RPCK and racialized self.Originality/valueThis manuscript fulfills a need in the field by highlighting how a teacher educator can leverage a critical friendship to describe and reveal the enactment and analysis of balancing the self and practice regarding RPCK development. Visual representations of the conceptualization of RPCK are included.

‘Putting heart’ into history and memory: Dialogues with Maya-Tseltal philosopher, Xuno López Intzin

In this article, the author shares her dialogues with the Maya-Tseltal scholar Xuno López Intzin, to open an analytical window to Non-Western conceptions of memory and time. It focuses on the cyclical conceptualization of time, and the embodied experience of history and memory of Maya peoples in the Chiapas Highlands. This Mayan perspective is explained by Xuno López Intzin, in an analytical dialogue with the author, who questions her own linear ethnohistorial perspectives. It aims to contribute to the decolonization of memory studies by giving an academic platform to this subaltern, nonlinear conception of time and history.

The enactment and self-disclosure in a relational perspective: the analyst's subjectivity

The author's intention is to underline how the concept of enactment makes its appearance, first on a psychodynamic level and then on an official level, with Jacobs' 1986 article. The formalisation of the term is accompanied by the necessary distinction between enactment and mono-personal concepts such as acting out and projective identification. The enactment, stressing the interactive nature of the analytical dialogue, has forced psychoanalysts to rework the traditional theory of reference and to search for key points of representational sharing made possible by the APA panel in 1992. The theme of self-disclosure will be addressed in the light of the theoretical-clinical transformations introduced by the recognition of the relational nature of analytical therapy. Finally, the theme of enactment, will be treated in the light of the author's personal representation, taking into account the necessary distinction between enactment and interaction, the complexity and dialectical logic in which this dynamic is inscribed.

Promoting healthy sustainable societies through a circular analytical dialogue method

Abstract Background The relationship between journalists and populations is complicated and the subject of “fake news” is one of these related issues. Despite the controversy, journalistic media are the ground to a well-informed society and as such journalists have the potential to be important actors in the pursuit of population health. At the same time, frustration against journalistic media has increased globally and vulnerable and so-called ’invisible’ groups feel neglected by the media. Methods The Circular Analytical Dialogue is an innovative method for examining the dialogue between journalists and citizens and investigating the role of journalism in promoting social cohesion, population health and democracy. Results The preliminary results of a pilot study in Japan on the topic of migration, using the Circular Analytical Dialogue, show that the dynamic between the participants and the journalists was valued by all parties as it allowed a profound and valuable dialogue. The journalist was most appreciative of the feedback of the participants as it opened alternative perspectives that were not considered beforehand. Conclusions The Circular Analytical Dialogue has the dual ambition to be a research as well as a journalistic tool and the knowledge generated with this method is intended to be used to strengthen understanding about the importance of journalism for healthy democratic societies. Key messages The Circular Analytical Dialogue method reinforces the importance of academic activism strongly related to sustainable societies. The Circular Analytical Dialogue method can potentially contribute to the empowerment of populations fundamental to population health.

A Framework for Effective Teacher‐Led and Student‐Centered Analytical Dialogue

A Framework for Effective Teacher‐Led and Student‐Centered Analytical Dialogue

Letras femininas. Mulheres escritoras em Portugal entre os séculos XVI/XVII e XVIII.

O presente artigo empreende uma breve revisão da literatura tradicional portuguesa, trazendo à cena os nomes de três escritoras portuguesas que fizeram parte do período histórico-literário seiscentista/setecentista, denominado Barroco, e do Iluminismo do século XVIII. Dessa forma, alinhado à proposta da crítica literária feminista, que tem se empenhado no resgate e estudo de autoras do passado, o artigo revisita excertos das Cartas portuguesas, de Mariana Alcoforado; alguns sonetos de Leonor de Almeida, a Marquesa de Alorna; e trechos do romance As aventuras de Diófanes, de Teresa Margarida da Silva e Orta, estabelecendo-se, assim, um diálogo analítico de viés comparatista entre essas produções e questões de caráter feminista e de gênero.

The Choreography of Conversation: An Exploration of Collaboration and Difficult Discussions in Cross Disciplinary Teacher Discourse Communities

This qualitative study explores three years of data from an ongoing professional development program for alumni of one university’s varied teacher education programs. Participants cross secondary grade levels and disciplines. Researchers examine what transpires when controversial topics are raised within this diverse teacher discourse community. Findings across the data suggest that when faced with more difficult topics such as race and sexual orientation, participants engage in comfortable collaboration rather than critical colleagueship, preferring to provide uncritical, though helpful, support rather than challenge one another. Implications for current teacher education programs include encouraging more open and analytical dialogue that moves students beyond their comfort zones, both inside and outside of their respective grades and disciplines.

The art of discovering - experiences of novice researchers

Purpose The purpose of this study is to conceptualize and analyse novice researchers experiences of the Glaserian grounded theory methodology. Design/methodology/approach The gorunded theory analytical procedures were applied. Findings The paper suggests that the creative freedom inherited in the Glaserian grounded theory approach empowers novice researchers, and many students reported positive emotions related to this freedom. At the same time, this freedom can represent a difficulty. Several students thought the tabula rasa instruction was something of a paradox, and the instructions within the methodology to “be without preconceptions”, “let the theory emerge”, and “find the social process” was difficult for most students to understand. However, some students found that they could counteract this difficulty via a systematic coding process and by working in pairs that enabled them to conduct an analytical dialogue. Originality/value This is the first study that investigates the way that novice researchers experience the Glaserian grounded theory methodology.

Caminhos para a práxis da Educação Ambiental: Um Estudo de Caso sobre a Percepção de Alunos do Ensino Fundamental da Escola Municipal Francisco de Assis e sua Importância no Processo de Sensibilização Socioambiental

The objective of this article is to analyze the importance of studies related to Environmental Perception in the educational process and understand its nuances in the construction of action and reflection in education and environmental awareness. Thus, through the discussion of environmental education and its theoretical and practical aspects, we seek an analytical dialogue between concepts such as praxis and interdisciplinarity and its application in the educational practice, using a field trip as main tool. In this context, we present a case study based on the perception of students perception at Escola Municipal Francisco de Assis about the Paraiba do Sul River in Campos dos Goytacazes - RJ. For this purpose, we identified connections and uses of the river by the students and, with this information, we organized a field trip to a fragment of riparian forest. The field trip activities aimed to contribute and foster an open dialogue among educators and students, sharing their perspective of the physical and natural environment and its connections with the social, political, economic and cultural relations, paving the way for an education based on environmental praxis.

Music Technology, Gender, and Class: Digitization, Educational and Social Change in Britain

AbstractMusic technology undergraduate degree programmes are a relatively new phenomenon in British higher education, situated at the intersection of music, digital technologies, and sound art. Such degrees have exploded in popularity over the past fifteen years. Yet the social and cultural ramifications of this development have not yet been analysed. In looking comparatively at the demographics of both traditional music and music technology degrees, we highlight a striking bifurcation: traditional music degrees draw students with higher social class profiles than the British national averages, while their gender profile matches the wider student population; music technology degrees, by contrast, are overwhelmingly male and lower in terms of social class profile. We set these findings into analytical dialogue with wider historical processes, offering divergent interpretations of our findings in relation to a series of musical, technological, educational, social, political, and cultural-institutional developments in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We ask what such developments bode for future relations between music, gender, and class in the UK.

Criticality and Collegiality

The growing crisis of confidence in the integrity of managerial decision making is partly attributed to the prescriptive character of educational programs favored by Western business schools. This character includes an overly instrumental preoccupation, preventing practitioner students from developing skill sets to address the varied issues that organizations face. We argue for more challenging pedagogical programs to help managers increase their understanding of contemporary managerial requirements. We document a teaching scenario that drew on critical management studies research material (coined as “troublesome knowledge”) designed to engage students. The “situated learning” focus adopted enabled students to collectively interrogate managerialist and troublesome knowledge perspectives. The integration of theory and practice that emerged through the combination of analytical sources, classroom dialogue, and novel assignments developed the students’ “relational” understandings and skills of “reflexivity,” a combination we characterize as advancing “practical wisdom.” The R&R (relational and reflexive) “threshold concepts” were used as a learning framework to chart student progress. We modeled a parallel facilitative mode of critical reflection- and relationship-centered management style. Feedback from the students indicates that the coupling of critically oriented conceptual material with the applied principles proffered empowering options for them regarding their own managerial practice.

A mismatch of meaning and intentionality between analyst and analysand

In this paper, I will consider a type of misunderstanding in the analytical dialogue and the possible unconscious motivations underlying this. I will also make reference to the patient's use of the analyst's words for the purpose of narcissistic enactment and will explore the extent of the analyst's involvement in this. The subjects of misunderstanding and narcissistic enactment will be dealt with in relation to a patient's way of processing certain interpretations at the beginning of analysis and the concealment of her way of processing the analyst's words. By contributing dreams and other significant material in the sessions, the patient gradually revealed her phantasies which enabled the analyst to uncover the possible factors which determined her particular attribution of meaning to the analyst's words and her retention of information about how she had initially construed his interpretations.

Estratégia como prática social e teoria da ação comunicativa: possíveis aproximações teóricas

Este artigo visa a discutir as possíveis aproximações teóricas entre a estratégia como prática social (EPS) e a teoria da ação comunicativa (TAC), instituída por Jürgen Habermas. Almejou-se construir um diálogo analítico, destacando as interfaces que podem ser estabelecidas entre esses construtos. Especificamente, buscou-se: (i) descrever o arcabouço teórico da estratégia como prática social; (ii) discutir os aspectos conceituais da teoria da ação comunicativa; e (iii) apresentar as possíveis aproximações teóricas entre a estratégia como prática social e a teoria da ação comunicativa. Argumenta-se que a TAC tem elementos interessantes a contribuir com a estratégia como prática e que, por esse motivo, é necessário explorar as aproximações teóricas. Desse modo, este artigo contribui singularmente para associar o pensamento habermasiano às perspectivas teóricas da estratégia como prática social, especialmente em seus elementos razão e verdade, entendimento e consenso, que ensejam contribuições substanciais da racionalidade comunicativa para a estratégia como prática social.

Making methods sociable: dialogue, ethics and authorship in qualitative research

The article argues for fostering sociable forms of dialogue in qualitative research. Conventional research shares an emphasis on extracting narratives with judicial and invasive state modes of enquiry rather than on learning from a genuine two-way dialogue between participants and researchers. Using a study of young migrants, we show how involving participants as observers and shapers of analytical dialogue can produce circulations of communication oscillating across the researcher’s and participant’s horizons of understanding. This produces new insight, beyond the limits of qualitative investigation, that extracts information from participants, and in so doing, has the potential to affect shifts in perception that animate and enchant experience. It has consequences for rethinking authorship that share, credit and specify responsibility. Developing such an approach opposes the ‘ethical hypochondria’ characterising qualitative research culture, where ‘automatic anonymity’ is limiting the potential of research to travel, connect people and engage the public imagination.

Dreaming as a primordial state of the mind: The clinical relevance of structural faults in the body ego as revealed in dreaming

Thetherapeuticactionofpsychoanalysis, attributedformanyyearstotheinterpretation of the repressed libido, has shifted its focus to object relationships. Some modern analysts maintain that the primary factor of psychic change is the new model of object relationship provided by analysis, and do not consider signifi cant the knowledge of episodes comprising implicit memories, whose irrecoverable nature is demonstrated by neuroscience. Nevertheless, the author proposes that the knowledge of specifi c archaic events, useless as their interpretation may be, offers a glimpse of the make‐up of the mind, contributing to the improvement of the empathy indispensable for inducing changes in the patient. Episodes linked to absolute narcissism, in the beginnings of the body ego, which do not appear either in associations or in transference, emerge in dreams. Neuroscience has made possible the understanding of aspects of dreaming capable of providing a glimpse of the genesis of the ego, whose development from the bodily phase of absolute narcissism to the psychic object phase can thus be traced. The unearthing of the genesis of primary structural faults in dreaming furnishes the analyst with an estimate of the possibilities for development of the ego, and this knowledge provides fi ne tuning capable of guiding the analyst's conduct. A clinical case illustrates how these phenomena occur, showing the intersubjective relationship as the silent primary generator of psychic changes, consolidated and developed secondarily by means of the analytical dialogue.

GROWTH, INEQUALITY AND POVERTY: SOME HARD QUESTIONS

This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic analysis of growth, inequality and poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first level of hard questions comes when we ask which policies and institutions are causally related to equitable Some progress is being made here by the economics literature, but relatively little is known about the second-level, harder questions--how a society comes to acquire good policies and institutions, and what exactly it is that we are buying into when we accept the number-one Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations--halving the of by the year 2015. The discourse on the economics of growth, inequality and straddles both analysis and policy. Analysts look to the latest policy debates to motivate their (sometimes esoteric) calculations, and are eager to insert their findings into the policy debate (e.g., ... our cross-country regression analysis establishes conclusively that lower tariffs lead to higher growth). Protagonists in policy debates are equally keen to register academic pedigree for different policy positions (e.g., ... Nobel Prize-winning economist X has argued in favor of Y). Policy protagonists and academics find themselves in different camps, each with its own articles of faith and characteristic rhetoric. This is particularly so in the debates on globalization. (1) I want to argue that in the economics of growth, inequality and poverty, and especially where the effects of globalization is concerned, the intersection of analytical and policy debates has belabored some questions the resolutions of which are relatively easy in principle, and it has tended to slide over, or not even recognize, questions that are relatively hard. It is important that we recognize these hard questions, since they often lie at the heart of policy or even analytical discord. Without recognition of the fundamental basis of disagreement, there cannot be fruitful policy or analytical dialogue. DEFINITIONS Let me start with some preliminaries. I am going to confine myself to growth, inequality and defined over income, or monetary value of consumption, following standard practice in economics. It so happens that this is also the focus of the first of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--to halve the of so defined, by the year 2015. (2) My purpose in focusing on income poverty is to show that hard questions arise even within this narrow economic perspective. The questions can only get harder as we broaden the frame. Accepting this frame, then, consider the distribution of real across individuals (correcting for price variations, allowing for non-market provision of goods and services, household size, distribution of resources within the household, etc.). There are, of course, conceptual and empirical problems galore in arriving at this distribution and much of the analytical literature centers on these issues, but let us even leave these problems to one side for the moment, to get at the truly hard questions. (3) Given the distribution of we can calculate its mean and the change in this mean over a given time period is the growth in per capita income, or simply growth. A measure of the dispersion in this distribution, such as the coefficient of variation or the Gini coefficient, can and usually does serve as a measure of inequality. Finally, focuses on the lower tail of the distribution. The most common measure is simply the fraction of population below a given poverty-line (the head-count ratio, also known as the incidence of poverty), although in recent years measures which incorporate the depth of have also been used. EASY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Here are some mechanical properties of growth, inequality and as defined above. …