Experience Of Dialogue Research Articles

Democracia Deliberativa: Marco normativo y herramienta para la participación ciudadana

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo contribuir al desarrollo de una cultura política del diálogo para la paz. Para ello se presenta un marco histórico, conceptual y evaluativo de la democracia deliberativa como horizonte de una cultura política de diálogo y paz, se evalúa un caso concreto de espacio público convocado por el Gobierno de la República (El Consejo Económico Social, CES, 2009), y se recomiendan una serie de variables que permitan construir indicadores para el seguimiento de futuras experiencias. Para ello se adopta un enfoque metodológico exploratorio cualitativo, en el que se propone y documenta un modelo de política democrática “deliberativa”, y desde el cual se evalúan algunas experiencias de diálogo social y político en El Salvador, desde la 1970 hasta la convocatoria en 2009, por parte del Gobierno de la República a la conformación del CES. Como resultados, tenemos un esquema básico de las ideas clave de una concepción de la democracia que puede servir de marco para el ejercicio de una ciudadanía activa; una valoración de la experiencia del CES como un espacio para la deliberación en torno a un problema nacional, como lo es la fiscalidad, que al no llegar a acuerdos sobre ello, deja una experiencia importante para seguir avanzando en diálogos futuros; y, finalmente, una propuesta que permita construir herramientas para el seguimiento (medición), de la calidad de los procesos democráticos deliberativos. Revista Ciencia, Cultura y Sociedad Vol.2 No.2 julio-diciembre 2015; 9-27

Participatory ethnobotany in rural schools in Paso Viejo (Department of Cruz del Eje, Córdoba, Argentina)

We present a participatory ethnobotanical experience from the development of research projects, university outreach work, and university volunteer programs in the rural areas of Paso Viejo (Pedanía Pichanas, Cruz del Eje). The objective was to identify and save plant resources of cultural interest, in addition to discuss the community and educational processes that promote participatory research (citizen science) with local actors. Five workshops were held on the different themes of ethnobotany, such as environmental interpretation, local productive practices, traditional food, veterinary medicine and forage plants. In the context of the local cultural context, we registered a total of 88 uses in 49 wild species and 3 cultivated species; 7 uses are associated with food, 19 with veterinary medicine, 32 with forage, and 30 with other uses. University students participated in the organization, planning, and preparation of the resources used as well as fieldwork registration and systematization of workshops. The study discusses how the construction of a dialogical experience promotes greater reciprocity in the process of collection of ethnobotanical data and knowledge, resulting in an educational and pedagogical process.

Regional'noe soobshchestvo i mezhnacional'nye otnosheniya: opyt Volgogradskoj oblasti

The article deals with the complex and controversial problems of the new regional communities' formation and the impact of the interethnic relations sphere on them. The author notes that the processes of interaction between representatives of different cultures and civilizations, ethnic groups and religions have become increasingly controversial and tense in the context of continuous social dynamics. Similarly to the Russian society as a whole, regional communities are in a state of transitivity. They get transformed, they acquire new qualities such as multicasting and heterogeneity, multi-ethnicity and multi-confessionalism, fragmentarity and multiculturality. This fact increases the risks and uncertainties, problematizes future prospects. National non-governmental organizations are increasingly positioning themselves as civil society institutions at the present stage of social development at the regional level. They perform a difficult dual task: on the one hand, they ensure the preservation and development of history, native language, culture, ethnic traditions, and on the other hand, they work on the integration, on the common identity and the Russian nation formation. On the territory of the Volgograd region, largely due to the active cooperation of regional authorities and local authorities with national public associations, international and inter-confessional relations are stable. The basis of such activity is respect for history, native language, culture, tradition, religion, national dignity of all people in the region, regardless of their belonging to a certain ethnic group or religion. Over two decades of accumulated considerable experience of joint inter-ethnic dialogue and cooperation, provided tolerance and peace, harmony and mutual understanding between people of different ethnicities and religions in the country.

The meaning of illness in nursing practice: a philosophical model of communication and concept possession

It is fundamental assumption in nursing theory that it is important for nurses to understand how patients experience states of ill health. This assumption is often related to aims of empathic understanding, but normative principles of social interpretation can have an important action-guiding role whenever nurses seek to understand patients' subjective horizons on the basis of active or passive expressions of meaning. The aim of this article is to present a philosophical theory of concept possession and to argue that it can shed light on how nurses should seek to understand patients' subjective perspectives on the meaning of illness. The two basic ideas in the theory are that patients' beliefs and thoughts about their experiences involve concepts and that concepts can be communicated on the basis of shared implicit conceptions of what they mean. These conditions of understanding have a striking application: nurse-patient communication is limited by many contextual factors, but it is often possible for nurses to detect shared implicit conceptions of the meaning of concepts of disease and illness. Furthermore, by acting as sympathetic linguistic experts and creating an atmosphere for dialogue, nurses can make patients feel comfortable about deferring to medical explanations of meaning that can constitute a communicative platform. The last part of the article uses a number of cases studies to show how these implications can be implemented as conceptual tools for securing meaningful communication about illness experiences in patient dialogue.

Re-authoring research conversations: beyond epistemological differences and toward transformative experience for researchers and educators

Common sense and published literature both assert that education research is often dismissed by practitioners on the grounds that it is irrelevant to their work. Some have argued that this is due primarily to a mismatch of professional epistemologies. While agreeing in principle, this work draws on work in sociology (Erving Goffman) and literary theory (Mikhail Bakhtin) to argue that practitioner mistrust of research may be primarily related to differences in the presentation of self in the teaching (and research) profession and a history of research used as a tool of transgression in the authorship of the practitioner professional self. Goffman’s account of frontstage and backstage settings in the everyday presentation of self is combined with Bakhtin’s account of the ways research erases the voice of practitioners by reducing their fundamentally dialogic experiences to monologic narratives dominated by the voice of the researcher. As an alternative, I draw on the work of the research psychologist Jerome Bruner and the practicing clinical psychologist Michael White to explore ways in which practitioners might be more meaningfully engaged in the research enterprise through a process of re-narrativizing their own experiences captured as part of research. Narrative techniques that help share responsibility for authoring accounts of practice among researchers and practitioners as research participants are described leading to conclusions about the potential transformative nature of such work for both researchers and practitioners.

An argument for the discrete processes of a gentle geography: London's East End soundscape

My research is on the relationship between the urban soundscape and the making of place. I have based it in London’s East End for its stark sonorous contrasts. In this article I will make an argument for a gentle geography of the urban, where the tacit comes at the forefront, our experience of the sensuous dialogues of the city guiding our making of place. I will use an example from my research to illustrate the ways in which the tacit urban relates to our making of place, notably by examining the process of listening participatively, hence placing ourselves in amongst what we are listening to. Thus, opening the doors to a reflection on the ways in which the senses shape our conception and making of place and the city. Then I will conclude by drawing on my experiences as a sensuously disabled researcher in order to further the reflection on the importance of sensing the soundscape and the discrete processes of making place that researching through the senses can help unveil.

Johannes Nissen, The Gospel of John and the Religious Quest: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Eugene, Ore., Pickwick Publications, 2013, 210 pp.

Johannes Nissen, The Gospel of John and the Religious Quest: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Eugene, Ore., Pickwick Publications, 2013, 210 pp. In his introduction, Johannes Nissen explains that his concern in writing this book to consider how from a Christian perspective, and in particular via the fourth gospel, we may be engaged in a dialogue with the diversity of our (p. 1). He places the emphasis on the religious quest, that is, the personal aspect of faith meeting faith, rather than the encounter between religions as faith systems. In the context of the contemporary landscape, he finds a study of the fourth gospel particularly relevant to address the question of how we can maintain genuine Christian integrity while at the same time being open to people of other faiths (p. 3). His book does not interpret the whole gospel as would a commentary, but addresses contemporary questions and challenges on the basis of selected readings. Nissen explains the rationale for the choice of texts by their special relevance for dealing with the contemporary quest and encounter, and their key role for an interpretation of the theology of the fourth gospel. Why the passion narrative would be excluded may be questioned in view of the second criterion mentioned. However, the commentary never neglects to point to the cross as the cornerstone of John's theology. Part one of the book explains in its first chapter the significance of the language of symbols and metaphors in John, drawn not so much from social and political life as in the Synoptics, but mainly from biological realities, such as birth, life, growth. Nissen then chooses to treat some of the most important symbols in John: the Word, Rebirth, Water, Bread, Light, Truth, Love, Way, Tree. All these chapters have a similar structure. The reader first learns about some of the major historical and exegetical issues in the text of the gospel, then is introduced to contemporary perspectives and texts by seekers in the North and South, with particular references to publications documenting inter-religious dialogue experiences in Denmark. Both in his exegetical remarks and the dialogue with contemporary authors, Nissen refers to important missiological issues in a careful and detailed way. Issues thus addressed are, among others, the relation and distinction between inculturation and syncretism, old or modern gnostic understandings of John's gospel, and the insistence on incarnation, continuity and discontinuity between human longings for salvation and John's understanding of Christ's message. A pivotal point in the encounter of Eastern and Western spirituality is the uniqueness of Jesus' incarnation --it is not one among many. Belief in resurrection as opposed to the idea of reincarnation is likewise presented as a core part of Christianity. In the second part of the book, Nissen addresses issues of dialogue brought about by a study of John's gospel in thematic chapters. He summarizes insights drawn from detailed studies and relates them to missiological challenges. Chapter 12 highlights questions of inculturation and contextualization. Nissen understands John as responding to people influenced by a pre-Gnostic syncretistic feeling, and he shows how John takes up the concerns of his contemporaries and deliberately makes a portrait of Jesus that is attractive to readers in such a context. The consequence has been that some biblical scholars have not hesitated to consider the fourth gospel as gnostic or docetic. However, John's insistence on the historicity and reality of the incarnation, as well as his emphasis on the reality of Jesus' death on the cross, make such a misunderstanding impossible. Chapter 13 provides a good introduction to the debates on models of dialogue with religions. After an accurate description of Christocentric exclusivism, Christocentric inclusivism, and theocentric pluralism, Nissen argues that no comprehensive solution is available from the Bible, except that it seems that the biblical texts in general would not justify a pluralist nor a radical exclusivist position. …

Reflections on Socratic Dialogue II: a Personal-Professional Perspective

This article is a first person account of a first time Socratic Dialogue experience from a Sociospacial Reciprocity perspective. During the process, the writer was nominated as The Example for the Socratic Dialogue Question, ‘What is Wellbeing?’. The account is based both on the writer’s first-hand experience of the process, and the theoretical Socratic Dialogue process as discussed previously in this publication under the title, ‘Reflections on Socratic Dialogue I: the theoretical background in a modern context’ (to which the writer also contributes). All identities have been anonymised for ethical reasons.

An Assessment of the Record of the Japan–Muslim World Dialogue among Civilizations and its Future Implications

This paper focuses on examining the question of the utility of the dialogue among civilizations as a means for conflict avoidance in the post-Cold War era. It raises a number of research questions, namely: are dialogues among civilizations capable of curbing the emerging confrontations between the West and some Muslim states and movements? Why are some dialogues more effective than others in bringing about the declared objectives? And what are the main pre-requisites for launching effective dialogues among civilizations? In dealing with these research questions, the paper relies on the experience of the Japan-Muslim World Dialogue among Civilizations (JMDC) which was launched in 2002 and ended in 2012 with a view of drawing lessons from that dialogue model concerning the viability of dialogues among civilizations. The first section of the paper reviews major models of dialogue among civilizations, and the assumptions upon which they were initiated, followed by an outline of the historical-cultural context and the global and regional political contexts which resulted in the initiation of the JMDC. The record of JMDC is outlined, followed by a factual and evaluative assessment. The final section of the paper draws some lessons from the JMDC concerning the essential pillars necessary for engaging in a viable dialogue among civilizations, especially in the post-Arab Spring era.

Manejo empírico y emergente del espacio interno de ventas de tiendas de barrio en Bogotá – Luis Marquez

El presente artículo buscó conceptualizar desde el pensamiento complejo con observaciones y diálogos cómo se maneja la exhibición y el espacio interno de ventas de un grupo de tiendas de barrio de la Localidad de Barrios Unidos en la ciudad de Bogotá. Partió de los conocimientos y experiencia del autor y del diálogo individual con un grupo de tenderos de la citada Localidad. A través de su propio lenguaje y sus interacciones, para comprender como manejan elobjeto descrito, generando una nueva mirada sobre el asunto. Para ello se usaron métodos cualitativos de investigación y recolección de información, como la observación y las entrevistas de profundidad de donde emergieron varias percepciones, que permiten entender la forma como los tenderos han manejado laexhibición y los espacios internos de ventas de sus tiendas.

Migrating Heritage: Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe (Innocenti, ed.)

This work is a book review considering the title Migrating Heritage: Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe edited by Perla Innocenti.

The Dialogue of Civilizations and Cultures: the Volga Region Experience

The relevance of the problem is defined by the value of the cultural and historical experience of interaction between Islamic and Christian civilizations in the Volga region to form the cultural dialogue at the present stage. Besides, the reference to the historical experience of the cultural dialogue is dictated by the need to design a concept of the cultural development of multinational Russia. The purpose of the article is to show the role of education and enlightenment in the formation of inter-ethnic and inter-faith dialogue in the Volga region. Objectives of the study and features of the studied material –was what determined the choice of a comparative and historical method and the concrete analysis as the main research methods which most completely reveal the methodological principle of historicism. The article emphasizes the main stages of the cultural dialogue in the Volga region and reveals that at the traditions revival stage the experience of cross-cultural interaction of the second half of 19th - the beginning of the 20th centuries, including in the field of education and enlightenment is used. The materials of the article can be useful for creating-generalizing works on Russian history and cultural history of the people of Russia, for students` educational work as well as for administrative decision-making in the social and cultural spheres.

Dialogue in the Dark: Shedding Light on the Development of Social Enterprises in China

The application of for‐profit business practices to nonprofit organizations, social enterprises are a way for nonprofit organizations to find funding in a time of rising costs, falling donations, and increased competition from for‐profit businesses in the social sector. Although well established in the mature economies of the West, these enterprises are a novelty in the emerging economies of Asia and in the transitional economies of the former communist world. The experiences of Dialogue in the Dark, a social enterprise concerned with the problems associated with blindness, highlight the unique challenges that social enterprises face in China and offer lessons for entrepreneurs who may wish to embark on a similar venture. ©2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Epistemological and Pedagogical Challenges of Teaching International Business Ethics Courses

International business ethics courses imply four basic epistemological and pedagogical challenges: (a) understanding various perceptions of ethics and values/virtues; (b) identifying ethical maxims among religious/spiritual traditions; (c) designing international business ethics courses as dialogical experiences; and (d) deepening our personal contribution to others’ learning process. This article argues that those epistemological and pedagogical challenges could determine the design and the contents of international business ethics courses: facing up to compatible/incompatible ethical theories (philosophical questioning), identifying ethical maxims among religious/spiritual traditions (religious and spiritual questioning), and reading our actions/decisions as quasi-texts (literature-bound questioning). Business ethics teachers could take those challenges upon themselves and design their business ethics courses accordingly. For each of the four challenges, a specific ethical issue is described; advice for teachers as well as ethical questions for debate and personal development are provided.

Auditory Verbal Hallucinations as Dialogical Experiences

The purpose of this study is to offer a model in which auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) can be conceptualized as dialogical experiences. This model is of interest in that it integrates several different perspectives (phenomenological, cognitive, social, and evolutionary) and the findings of empirical research on the subject. Hallucinations are understood as the product of a state of consciousness in which the self is dissociated into different positions or perspectives. After reviewing the most relevant results of psychological research, dialogical self theory is proposed as the theoretical framework for understanding hallucinatory experiences. It is argued that the voices possess a series of characteristics, pragmatic properties, relationships with the voices similar to their social surroundings, and more dissociative experiences in people who experience voices than in those who do not, with which they may be considered a dialogical experience. Finally, a model attempting to integrate psychological research on AVHs within the framework of dialogical self theory is presented.

Do pluralismo cultural na Idade Média aos desafios do Direito na contemporaneidade

The Middle Ages are usually associated with an obscure time for which modernity has meant an evolution. Their repository of practices, ideas and experiences is despised Filoby Western culture, which comprises the entire world from the typical categories of modernity. The article intends to question this dogma, pointing on one hand to the richness of the multicultural medieval experience of dialogue between Arabs, Jews and Christians who together have managed to preserve their differences and propose universality. On the other hand, it aims to signalize the unilateral and monologic character of modernity, which interdicted intercultural dialogue and established the hegemony of the liberal-individualist cultural model. Consequently, a monistic legal paradigm arises and Law abandons the framework of plurality to become an instrument of regulation of a supposedly homogeneous society. The exhaustion of the modern project unveiled plural societies, whose claims the law is unable to attend to. The rehabilitation of the legacy of medieval philosophy can be an important way to approach the Law to contemporary issues of pluralism that modern ideas have obliterated.Keywords: cultural pluralism, Middle Ages, modern Law.

Neuston. Experimento 1. Explorando a interface. Uma experiência de diálogo entre ciência e arte no âmbito marinho

Tomando como metáfora o neuston, que define a comunidade de organismos que vivem na interface água-ar, o projeto propõe uma experiência de pesquisa da interface ciência-arte no âmbito marinho. Proposto como uma experiência transdisciplinar, estabelece uma colaboração entre 15 cientistas do Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – e 15 artistas ou literatos. A partir de uma publicação científica, o investigador expõe ao artista um aspeto concreto do seu trabalho, estabelecendo-se um diálogo entre ambos que implica visitas dos artistas aos laboratórios e dos cientistas aos estúdios dos artistas. Baseando-se nesse diálogo, o artista realiza um trabalho de criação artística (pintura, escultura, fotografia, instalação) ou literária (poesia, conto, banda desenhada). As diferentes propostas artísticas resultantes suscitaram uma reflexão sobre: i) as formas de representação e a linguagem, ii) o objeto de estudo e a sua relação formal ou concetual com outros objetos, iii) a contextualização do trabalho de investigação noutros planos (social ou íntimo), ou a sua descontextualização e iv) a prática e os processos de conhecimento científicos, bem como o sujeito-cientista, face à prática e aos processos de conhecimento artístico e do sujeito-artista. Tudo isso implica, finalmente, uma aproximação a um conhecimento mais complexo sobre o objeto de estudo e sobre o sujeito-investigador, que inclui a experiência estética.

Актуализация диалогического опыта языковой личности бакалавра как способ реализации компетентностной модели высшего менеджмент-образования

The article substantiates the urgency of formation of the dialogue experience of the linguistic personality of a communicative leader as a special set of pedagogical tasks for implementation of the competence model of higher management training. К eywords: the level of development of dialogical experience; competence model; communicative leadership. IMPrOVING THE DIALOGIC EXPErIENCE OF BACHELOr’S LINGUISTIC IDENTITY AS A WAY OF IMPLEMENTING A COMPETENCE MODEL OF HIGHEr MANAGEMENT TrAINING Cherkashina T.Т. Morozova А UDC 372.881.161.1 DOI 10.18413/2313-8971-2015-1-3-52-59

ASEに基づく相槌によるロボットとの対話体験の向上

In this paper, we describe an investigation into users' experiences of a simple talking robot with back-channel feedbacks that is designed based on an artificial subtle expression (ASE). In the experiments with participants, they are divided into six conditions based on an expression factor (three levels; human-like speech, blinking light, and beeping sound) and a timing decision method factor (two levels; a linguistic method and an acoustic method) for investigating participants' impressions on the dialogue experience. We developed an electric pedestal to show the blinking expression, on which a simple cubic robot was fixed. Participants engaged in a task of explaining a cooking procedure with a spoken dialogue system coupled with the robot on the pedestal. The robots responded to them by making the back-channel feedbacks in accordance with the expression factor. The results of questionnaire analyses suggested that the ASE-based expressions of back-channel feedback provide positive experiences for users.

Anthropological perspectives on documents. Ethnographic dialogues on the trail of police papers

This article discusses implications and potentialities of anthropologically thinking and researching with documents, arguing that they consist of ethnographic artifacts, which can be particularly fruitful in certain research contexts. In order to do that, it resumes some movements of distancing and rapprochement between anthropology and documents and places two recent ethnographic experiences in dialogue. One a research through police inquiries of Brazilian Federal Police concerning "human trafficking for sexual exploitation" crimes, and the other focused on administrative procedures related to "missing persons" cases investigated by Rio de Janeiro Civil Police. In addition to revealing the heuristic potential of "following the paper" and calling attention to the micro politics of the interactions among those that document and those who are documented, the paper aims to contribute to larger discussions about the challenges that dealing with documents in field work situations poses to anthropology and its self-representations.