Dialogic Principles Research Articles

How are action researchers contributing to knowledge democracy? A global perspective

ABSTRACTAlthough action research has been widely recognized as an appropriate methodology for promoting the democratization of knowledge, it is not always conducted from an emancipatory and transformative paradigm. Using AR in a technical way, renders it no more than a researcher-driven, problem-solving heuristic that perpetuates the intellectual colonization of local knowledge. This begs the question: how can action researchers work in ways that are contextually and culturally relevant, and generate knowledge that enables people to take control of improving their own lives as they see fit? This paper presents a thematic analysis of the narrative reports from seven participatory workshops held around the world for the purpose of dialoging around this and related questions. Findings indicate that, generally, action researchers are indeed facing challenges on many personal, institutional and epistemic levels as they endeavor to promote knowledge derived from the principles of authentic participation and dialogue with those whom it is intended to benefit. However, the analysis also reveals creative responses of practitioners to these challenges. In keeping with the special issue theme, we offer this analysis as a starting point for further discussion around how we can mobilize knowledge for equitable social progress.

“Dialogue-concertizing” as a reflection of the growth of the communicative component in culture: on the example of concertos for two pianos and orchestra by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Relevance of study. In the 21st century humanity entered the new era, the era of global integration. In conditions of globalization, active migration process, people’s connection to “world wide web” – Internet – the dialogue between cultures and peoples, understanding each other, need for communication (not only the information exchange, but the personality-forming communication – the dialogue) becomes really important. In modern situation of general interest in communication and dialogue, the research of the implementation of dialogical principles in culture and art becomes rather relevant.Main objectives of the study are to analyze the specifics of concerto for two pianos and orchestra in the context of the growth of the communicative component in culture, to review the communicative and dialogical features of the genre. Research methodology is based on historical method (to show the way of development of double piano concerto), method of comparative analysis (to find out common features and main differences between the genre of double concerto, concerto for one soloist with orchestra and chamber genres), methods of stylish, structural, textural analysis (to detect the dialogical connections inside the music of Mendelson’s double piano concertos), culturological method (to study the reasons of the renaissance of concerto for two piano and orchestra; cultural and historical processes, which explain the possibility and even the need of genre’s ‘return’ to concert repertoire and composers’ creativity, the relevance of the genre in the modern situation of special attention to ensemble as a reflection of the increase of a communicative component in culture), cross-disciplinary approach (to show the universalism of dialogic theory, the connection between philosophy of dialogism and musical culture)Results and conclusions. Concerto for two pianos and orchestra is a genre with “increased dialogicity”, which synthesizes features of chamber ensemble and solo concerto with orchestra. Such a union brings the ideas of equal importance, rights and significance of creative individualities of performers in chamber ensemble, to the genre of concerto on the genre-communicative level. Musical model of the society in ensemble genres is based on mutual understanding and close emotional contact. It illustrates modern tendencies of making difference between the traditional logical understanding of the dialogue and new fenomenological understanding. Ensemble culture shows aspecial way to the “cultural world” with help of the language of art. It makes relevant such vital problems as need for communication and dialogue between cultures, peoples, nationalities, social groups and individuals, and global problems, such as cultural dialogism, harmonization of relationship between the man and the environment, finally, between humanity and nature.

“With New Eyes”: Toward Advancing the Commitment of the World Council of Churches to Justice and Peace in Africa

AbstractIn commemorating 70 years of the existence of the World Council of Churches (WCC), especially its global commitment to promoting justice and peace, there is need to enhance its work especially in Africa. While acknowledging and appraising the WCC’s efforts, this article suggests that the challenging case of Africa requires we seek and deploy fresh insights. This essay identifies poor ecumenical relations among churches in Africa as a key obstacle to the WCC’s effort. However, it argues that the principles of dialogue espoused by Pope Francis in Evangelii Gaudium could serve as powerful resources for the WCC in reimagining an ecumenical Africa that is committed to justice and peace.

Філософський діалог як передумова відкриття в собі “істинної людини” (за Г. Сковородою)

The article deals with G. Skovoroda’s views on the feasibility of constructing interactions between people through dialogue. It was found out that the key questions that a person should be guided in conducting a dialogue a search for truth. The authors emphasize the achievements of the philosophical thought of the XVIII century: the synthesis of domestic and Western European cultural thought, the importance of considering a person as a combination of spiritual and bodily principles. The article analyzes the works of G. Skovoroda (“Narcissus”, “Ashkan”, “Dialogue, or Conversation about the ancient world”, “The Five Travelers’ talk About True Happiness in Life” (“Talking Friendship on the Mindful World”), “Ring”, “Conversation, called alphabet, or a primer of the world” and “Dialogue, the name of which is Flood Snake”). The importance of understanding the dialogue as a way of knowing the truth is emphasized. The authors pay attention to the manner in which the material of the letters of G. Skovoroda are depicted and the characters that are endowed with the main characters of the works. The attention was drawn to the way in the of G. Skovoroda’s works of the ethical and anthropological motifs characteristic of the XVIII century: mystical deepening of oneself, the search for a true Christian ideal, and the cultivating of the inner man. The views of G. Skovoroda deals with need to combine the theoretical basis on the practical introduction of the acquired knowledge in the person’s individual and social life to improve the educational, spiritual and moral state of society are highlighted. On the basis of the analysis of the creative heritage of G. Skovoroda, the authors singled out the basic principles of constructing a philosophical dialogue: value-motivational, that is, a person enters a dialogic interaction in order to solve issues for which she does not know the answer or has doubts about their solution; informational and regulatory, containing a large number of different programs for solving this issue and only one answer that can satisfy the opponent; transformative, in which the impetus for dialogue is an issue that needs to be addressed and transformed into one’s own views; productive, in which, through dialogue, a person acquires experience and is convinced of the expediency of a particular behavior; estimated, where the stated objectives of the dialogue are compared with the results obtained and there is a transformation of objective reality into the subject of persuasion. Keywords: G. Skovoroda, dialogue, principles of dialogue

Developing a “culturally validated” dialogic indicator tool: A reconceptualised analytic framework using Talanoa to code classroom talk

Dialogic approaches are promising vehicles for effective pedagogy, providing opportunities for students to talk about learning; build on and sustain individual and collective identities, and; advance thinking and understanding in ways that support enhanced achievement. Whilst this is an idealised view of talk in classrooms, international literature provides evidence that suggests teachers struggle to shift practice toward dialogic pedagogy. From a national perspective, a more pressing issue given the nature of this study is to reconcile international views of dialogic pedagogy with a Pacific worldview. This article reports on the process of developing an analytic framework or tool for identifying ‘dialogic’ practices that are informed by Pacific ways of knowing or orientations, including language practices to progress that reconciliation. The reconceptualised ‘Pacific Dialogic Indicator Tool’(PDIT) will foreground culturally validated language acts based on talanoa dimensions and weave across these dimensions key dialogic principles that are research-based.

The role of the Web site as a relationship building tool in Polish non-profit organizations

Dialogic communication which derives from a two-way symmetrical communication model is considered to be an important foundation for long-lasting positive relationships with organizations and the public. The purpose of the current study was to examine the largest Polish Public Benefit Organization Web sites to determine the extent to which they use dialogic communication rules in relationship building. Also, the relation between the Web site dialogic potential and the amount of organizational revenue was scrutinized. The revenue was analyzed on two levels: total revenue acquired during the tax year and the amount of the annual 1% of personal income tax. The results of the study indicate that Web sites of analyzed organizations fail to fully implement the dialogic communication principles. The statistical correlation between the sum of annual revenue and 1% of personal income tax and the utilization of dialogic principles was partially supported. Non-profits appeared to show their greatest strengths in providing basic information to online users, such as a mission statement, organization logo and history, short loading time, general contact information on the homepage and major links on the homepage to subpages. Organizational division into three clusters highlighted quite significant differences in the utilization of dialogic principles. The Web sites of the largest Polish PBOs in terms of total annual revenue and 1% of personal income tax are characterized by significantly higher dialogic communication potential.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.29.3.18053

African States: Themes Emerging from the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review

AbstractThis article examines the themes emerging from the engagement of African states with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council. The underlying principles of universality, cooperation and dialogue that guide the review have given African states a renewed sense of engagement with the international human rights institution. Despite the universality of the process, regionalism and cultural relativism are important aspects in the engagement of African states with the UPR mechanism. This article considers the extent to which regionalism and cultural relativism may prevent UPR from acting as an effective mechanism for human rights enforcement. It examines the potential for UPR to complement other national, regional and international human rights mechanisms, and the danger of state ritualism. These have ramifications for the extent to which UPR can achieve its goal of improving the human rights situation on the ground in Africa.

Women, Land and Empowerment in Rwanda

AbstractRwanda has recently registered all legal owners of land and has required spouses to be registered as co‐owners of joint property; this is aimed at contributing to the empowerment of women, among many other things. A 2015 survey explored the impact of law and official practice on women's empowerment—whether they knew their rights and whether they could claim them. The conclusion is that there has indeed been some impact. The problems of women's subordination remain, however, given patriarchal attitudes, unequally shared decision‐making and a tension between Rwanda's espousal of the rule of law on the one hand and the principle of dialogue and consensus on the other. Moreover, the position of a substantial proportion of women in unregistered domestic partnerships has not changed. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Social presence and digital dialogic communication: engagement lessons from top social CEOs

ABSTRACTThis study expands the conceptual framework of dialogic communication on social media by incorporating a social dimension via social presence. Through a content analysis, we explored how dialogic internet principles and social presence strategies were implemented in top social CEOs’ Facebook posts to generate public engagement outcomes. Results showed that top social CEOs used a variety of dialogic principles on Facebook. Yet, 1-way information strategies were still more commonly used. Critically, dialogic principles, such as providing information of interest to publics and creating dialogic loops and the affective and cohesive strategies for projecting social presence effectively enhanced public engagement outcomes of reactions, likes, shares, and comments. Theoretical contributions and strategic implications on digital dialogic communication and leadership communication in public relations are discussed.

Integrationist reflections on the place of dialogue in our communicational universe

AbstractRoy Harris identifies the “main flaw” in J. L. Austin’s account of language as a “failure to consider to what extent being able to ‘do things with words’ is parasitic on being able to do things without them”. Harris’s comment here serves as a springboard for a critical evaluation of communicational theories based around “talk-in-interaction” or dialogic principles. The primacy thereby given to linguistic interaction arguably entails a mystification of communication processes and the dis-integration of the social world into which our communicational experiences are intervowen. Consequently, the ghost of segregationism, in the shape of Harris’s “fallacy of verbalism”, continues to haunt, at times faintly, at times aggressively, the assumptions and methodologies of the approaches in question.

Opportunities of Educating Responsibility in Online Social Networks among Teenage Girls at Children’s Day Care Centers

This article reveals education opportunities at Children’s Day Care Centers on purpose to strengthen responsible participation of teenage girls in online social networks (OSN). On purpose to reveal the opportunities of educating responsibility in online social networks among teenage girls, qualitative research access has been applied. 16 specialists from different Children’s Day Centers of Lithuania have participated in the interview.
 Analysis data revealed that Child day care center specialists in order to ensure teenagers’ safety in social networking sites apply various educational methods: individual talks, rules for the use of social networking sites, organize group activities, discussions, film reviews, have conversations with parents. Active online participation of teenage girls, their inability to assess threats posed by social networks increase their vulnerability involving the risk of privacy, communication and information content. Girls’ safety in social networking sites becomes an incentive to help them become responsible users of social networking sites. Data analysis revealed that girls’ responsibility in social networks could be increased by systematic and consistent educational work, combining all the three components of responsibility (knowledge, abilities and values), based on the dialogue principle and quality institutional cooperation.

Educational process in technical universities in the context of individual creativity of students

The article analyzes the educational process in technical universities in the context of individual creativity of students, taking into account the relevance of the problem of the study of individual creativity and conditions of creativity of the individual, relying not only on modern scientific and technical achievements, but also productive for this contingent of students pedagogical technologies aimed at activating the creative beginning of the personality of pupils on the principles of creative dialogue. In addition, the article pays special attention to the factors that must be taken into account in the implementation of educational impacts on students of technical universities, including: basic factors (political, economic and socio-cultural); factors of stability (objective, subjective, objective-subjective); factors of change (active life position, existential, cognitive).

From Seriality to Transmediality: A Socio-Narrative Approach of a Skilful and Literate Audience

From Seriality to Transmediality: A Socio-Narrative Approach of a Skilful and Literate Audience

Smart Enough to Talk With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Dialogue Capable AI Systems

Smart Enough to Talk With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Dialogue Capable AI Systems

القيادة التنموية لدى قائدي المدارس الثانوية في المملكة العربية السعودية وعلاقتها بثقافة الحوار لدى المعلمين

القيادة التنموية لدى قائدي المدارس الثانوية في المملكة العربية السعودية وعلاقتها بثقافة الحوار لدى المعلمين

Privacy for whom?: a feminist intervention in online research practice

ABSTRACTAs shifts in technology and culture have complicated traditional definitions of privacy, researchers need new approaches to navigating privacy in online contexts. In this article, we argue that the experiences and perceptions of vulnerable groups must form the starting point for online researchers’ ethical decision-making, regardless of whether their research population qualifies as ‘vulnerable.’ This is especially important in spaces where privacy violations put people, particularly marginalized individuals, at risk for online harassment and abuse, among other harms. We seek to intervene in online research practices by putting forth a feminist approach to privacy, drawing on two studies related to online harassment. Specifically, we argue that feminist theory and methodology inform an approach to privacy that (a) starts from the lives of socially and politically vulnerable groups, (b) takes an intersectional approach to analyzing power relations, and (c) draws on a moral imperative of care and responsibility in enacting feminist principles of context, dialogue, and reflexivity throughout the research process. In doing so, we offer questions to prompt critical reflection on privacy concerns in online research.

JUSTICE DIALOGUE IN THE PROCESS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Criminal justice upholds law and justice based on material truth revealed in justice dialogue. Nowadays, the verdict of criminal justice does not reveal material truth. It is strongly presumed that there are some problems in justice dialogue. This normative juridical research with philosophical and conceptual approach describes the problems of justice dialogue in the process of criminal justice. Justice dialogue happened in the case of Blasphemy by Ahok and the case of Cocoa Stealing by Mina. The implementation of justice dialogue today is not in line with the principles of dialogue such as doubtful assumptions, freedom to have dialogue, imbalance chance of dialogue, sufficient attention, and best idea acceptance. Dialogue principles are violated in the case of blasphemy like sufficient attention and best idea acceptance. In the case of cacao stealing, the breaking of dialogue principles is doubtful assumptions, freedom to have dialogue, sufficient attention, and best idea acceptance. As a result, law and justice enforcement in criminal justice is not based on material truth. Keywords: Dialogue Principles , Justice Dialogue , Criminal Justice.

Informal democracy in Patras, Greece: A mechanism for improved planning?

Greek spatial planning reality faces the problems like sprawl and illegal settlements outside the building zones, underpinned by the conventional self-financed real estate development model under the patronage of the national government. In case of transportation congestion problems, the formal planning proved to be even more ineffective and unpopular. Therefore, non-institutionalized supplement to formal planning is considered highly effective: informal planning relies upon the principles of collaborative dialogue, networks and trustful relationships among the relevant players. The article describes the informal planning procedure – the test planning method – analyzed against the theoretical background of communicative rationality, on the one hand, and critically assessed through the practical implementation in the case of Peloponnesian city of Patras on the other. As a result, the article highlights the successful phases of the test planning, nevertheless pointing to its shortcomings, which could be expected in the societies with a dominant political cronyism.

A dialogic reframing of talent management as a lever for hospitableness

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider how the talent of hospitableness can be transposed to commercial settings without a wholesale erosion of its altruistic and moral core and how it can be effectively leveraged within the talent management (TM) process.Design/methodology/approachThe authors unpack the concept of hospitableness which entails an unconditional disposition and moral obligation in the host to care for their guest. This paper also exposes its moral dilemmas and the risks it presents to both host and guest – leading to the endorsement of reciprocal altruistic hospitableness which warrants altruistic sentiments and moral obligations in both parties as the necessary condition for a more protective, mutually beneficial and enduring host–guest relationship. Against the backdrop of the tourism and hospitality industry, this paper examines the challenges of transposing hospitableness to commercial settings without a wholesale erosion of its altruistic and moral core. It posits that what is needed is a reframing of TM as a dialogic process through which hospitableness can be effectively leveraged as a unique talent.FindingsIn carrying out this exercise, this paper develops a conceptual framework that brings the TM process under the overarching principle of free dialogue – which the authors see as a precondition for preserving the altruistic and moral core of hospitableness even when transposed to commercial settings.Practical implicationsThe framework contains concrete guidelines on how to reframe TM as dialogic practice and can be used as a canvas for experimentation in managing the talent of hospitableness and for training purposes.Originality/valueThe paper expands the conceptual dimensions of hospitableness and deepens understanding of its application via the TM process to commercial settings.

Thomas Mann and F. M. Dostoyevsky: on the Essential Dialogue between Germany and Russia

This paper deals with the dialogue between East and West in the creative work of T. Mann and F. Dostoyevsky. The dialogue is focused on issues of essentialism: the truth and the simulacrum and the cultural and artistic activity of two different types (will to live and will to die). T. Mann’s prose is considered in the context of the author’s perception of Dostoyevsky’s oeuvre, which allows the authors to single out the main cultural codes and civilizational constants in the creative work of the two authors (the Western Faustian idea of rationality and the Russian idea of the soul). The article seeks to study T. Mann’s spiritual and creative antinomies, which manifest themselves in the writer’s motto “Dostoyevsky, but in moderation”. The complex interdisciplinary methodology of the research is based on the principle of dialogue between the artistic and the philosophical, the scholarly and the scientific, the religious and the irreligious, and academic and journalistic discourses. A hermeneutic study of literary text means considering it holistically in the context of culture. The authors refer to Dostoyevsky’s Diary of a Writer and Mann’s essays, along with other works by both writers. The main problematic contexts of the study include Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept God is dead and Oswald Spengler’s decline of Europe, along with the philosophical ideas of Western postmodernism (including the theory of simulacra by J. Baudrillard), Jung’s psychoanalytic studies, and the eschatological diagnoses and forecasts of Russian religious philosophy (V. S. Solovyov, N. A. Berdyaev, and I. A. Ilyin). The main results of the study are related to the opposing ideas of Dostoyevsky’s eschatological openness and Mann’s temporal dimension, associated respectively with metaphysical transcendence and humanistic immanence based on Kant’s philosophy of practical reason. A conclusion is drawn about the isomorphism of Dostoyevsky’s prose fiction and journalism and the anti-isomorphism of Mann’s fiction and essays. Choosing between the philosophy of the Nietzschean superman and Dostoyevsky’s Christ-centred ethics, Thomas Mann opts for Dostoyevsky. However, Mann’s perception of Dostoyevsky’s ideas retains a dialogical incompleteness, reflecting the insoluble contradiction between the rational and the irrational conceptions of the German classic.