Ground For Dialogue Research Articles

Using the CollaboraKTion framework to report on primary care practice recruitment and data collection: costs and successes in a cross-sectional practice-based survey in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, Canada

BackgroundAcross Canada and internationally we have poor infrastructure to regularly collect survey data from primary care practices to supplement data from chart audits and physician billings. The purpose of this work is to: 1) examine the variable costs for carrying out primary care practice-based surveys and 2) share lessons learned about the level of engagement required for recruitment of practices in primary care.MethodsThis work was part of a larger study, TRANSFORMATION that collected data from three provincial study sites in Canada. We report here on practice-based engagement. Surveys were administered to providers, organizational practice leads, and up to 20 patients from each participating provider. We used the CollaboraKTion framework to report on our recruitment and engagement strategies for the survey work. Data were derived from qualitative sources, including study team meeting minutes, memos/notes from survey administrators regarding their interactions with practice staff, and patients and stakeholder meeting minutes. Quantitative data were derived from spreadsheets tracking numbers for participant eligibility, responses, and completions and from time and cost tracking for patient survey administration.ResultsA total of 87 practices participated in the study (n = 22 in BC; n = 26 in ON; n = 39 in NS). The first three of five CollaboraKTion activities, Contacting and Connecting, Deepening Understandings, and Adapting and Applying the Knowledge Base, and their associated processes were most pertinent to our recruitment and data collection. Practice participation rates were low but similar, averaging 36% across study sites, and completion rates were high (99%). Patient completion rates were similarly high (99%), though participation rates in BC were substantially lower than the other sites. Recruitment and data collection costs varied with the cost per practice ranging from $1503 to $1792.ConclusionsA comprehensive data collection system in primary care is possible to achieve with partnerships that balance researcher, clinical, and policy maker contexts. Engaging practices as valued community members and independent business owners requires significant time, and financial and human resources. An integrated knowledge translation and exchange approach provides a foundation for continued dialogue, exchange of ideas, use of the information produced, and recognises recruitment as part of an ongoing cycle.

Archaeological City of Ur in the Local and International Tourism

The goal of this research is to identify the future and strategic position, of the city of Ur Archeological as a tourist local and international, through a process of strategic analysis of the most important opportunities and strategic challenges that are available in the environment factors Ur Archeological in Al-Nasiriya. To solve the problem of the research used descriptive analytical method. The research found the great opportunity for the city of Ur to become one of the most important tourist sites of local and global and the following reasons: • The possession of cultural factors of the environment cultural opportunities strategy to be a destination for religious and cultural tourism locally and globally. • Includes natural factors strategic opportunities to attract local and global tourists who are looking for the beauty of nature and the uniqueness of the rare sites offering such as marshes. • Opportunities in the political environment enable it to be one of the places which hosts festivals and events to lay the foundations of tolerance, understanding and dialogue between religions. Thus contributing to the popularity of tourism festivals. • Opportunities in the competitive environment, the regional and international environment good for its entry into the global market.

The back and forth between Habermas and postmodernism

Abstract This paper aims to investigate the dialogue between some postmodern thinkers (mostly Lyotard, Rorty and Vattimo) and Habermas’ criticism in light of a different conception of dialogue itself. Therefore, we shall first give an account of how Habermas establishes his neomodern discourse (1985) in a very close dialogue with the key concepts of postmodernism: the subject and its social role, language and the concept of philosophical truth and the postmodernist view of history (Lyotard, 1979, Vattimo, 1974, 1985, 2009; Rorty, 1989; Bauman, 1993). Secondly, dialogue will be addressed as a structural difference between Habermas’ universal normative ethic of discourse (together with Karl-Otto Apel, 1983) and the postmodern local and linguistic pluralism, emancipated from any metaphysical ratio. In the end, it will be argued that philosophy ought to be dialogical in line with Habermas’ view, within the foundation and normativity of dialogue. Postmodernist dialogue in philosophy and in society displays instead many shortcomings if understood as a pluralist linguistic game of interpretation.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): The latest attempt at governing the extractive industries in Chad

For over a decade, Chad has embraced the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), one of the most widely-adopted interventions aimed at improving knowledge of revenue distribution in the mining and oil and gas sectors worldwide. In Chad, the EITI provides a foundation for dialogue between various stakeholders and has thus become an important entry point for examining the social and economic impacts of oil in the country. This paper provides an extended analysis of the EITI experience in the country, focusing specifically on how it has influenced the governance of oil revenue, the role played by civil society organisations in this area, and the responses of the government to the intervention.

Love or Knowledge: Sexual Epistemology in Fichte and Kleist

Around 1800 the hopes for grounding a knowledge of nature confronted the dilemma of human duality. Both Fichte in Die Bestimmung des Menschen and Kleist in “Die Marquise von O...” and Penthesilea unfold empirical worldviews in which a scientific epistemology based on material passivity is allied with rape and violence. They diverge, however, in the alternatives they present. For Fichte, wedding a knowable natural order with spirit, to accommodate both self and others, depends on a particular embodied form of interpersonal summons found in the coincidence of love and sex. For Kleist, however, neither self-knowledge, nor activity, nor love, nor even faith—Fichte's entire repertoire of ligatures between mind and empirical world—can provide a foundation for exterior know-ledge or true dialogue. As figural language becomes action and mythical tradition devours itself, the compatibility of autonomy with the grounded knowledge necessary for science appears as an unfounded idealist's dream.

A pneumatologia como fundamento teológico do diálogo inter-religioso para as Assembleias de Deus no Brasil

<p> As Assembleias de Deus representam o pentecostalismo clássico, que teve início no Brasil, no ano de 1911, tendo como base a experiência do Espírito e de seus dons. Hoje, essas igrejas somam mais de 15 milhões de membros e a doutrina sobre o Espírito Santo continua sendo uma das suas bases mais importantes. O Brasil de hoje, diferente de 1911, é um país pluralizado na sua cultura e na manifestação religiosa. Diante desse contexto, o diálogo entre as religiões é um imperativo fundamental no Brasil. O Espírito Santo, promove a unidade, o diálogo, a convivência e a amizade entre os diferentes. É o Espírito que sopra vida e comunhão em lugares diversos. Por essa razão, o Espírito pode ser base, para os assembleianos, para um diálogo entre as diferentes religiões. Assim, a pesquisa tem como objetivo fundamentar, em função das Assembleias de Deus, o diálogo inter-religioso a partir da doutrina do Espírito Santo. Para isso, buscará extrair da pneumatologia elementos que contribuam para repensar a teologia pentecostal das assembleias de Deus, a fim de introduzi-las no diálogo inter-religioso. A partir da metodologia de análise bibliográfica, ficarão claras as conclusões seguintes: o Espírito Santo está presente em todo ser humano; o cuidado com o meio ambiente, a busca pela justiça e pela paz, são aspectos pneumatológicos comuns a todos os cristãos e pertinentes a diferentes tradições religiosas. O Espírito promove amizade e comunhão entre os seres humanos; em termos concretos, o resultado é a convivência harmoniosa entre pessoas de diferentes tradições religiosas. Assim, é possível concluir a fecundidade da pneumatologia como fundamento para o diálogo inter-religioso nas Assembleias de Deus.</p>

End of the Conversation or Recasting Constitutional Dialogue?

Constitutional dialogue has become an influential concept to understand the relationship between courts and other the institutional branches of the state, with the primary focus being on legislatures. More recently, the place of dialogue within the constitutional literature has been challenged as vague; providing a potential to over-reach or overstate the judicial role and distorting the reality of practices which in fact shape the relationship between courts and other institutions. Critics have placed into focus the question: should constitutional scholarship abandon ‘constitutional dialogue’ as a way of understanding the relationship between courts and other institutions within the constitutional order? This article seeks to respond to this question by arguing that constitutional dialogue remains an important aspect of understanding the development of constitutional understanding about inter-institutional roles but does so by acknowledging the criticisms levelled against constitutional dialogue. Developing this approach, the argument made in this article seeks to recast the theoretical foundations of dialogue in constitutional theory by shifting the understanding of dialogue away from its normative and descriptive tethers. In its place, constitutional dialogue should be considered in the context of a philosophical understanding of language and the role that it plays to create constitutional meanings and experiences. Dialogue has a deeper and more significant register than a metaphor conveying a ‘conversation’, ‘communication’ or a ‘deliberative rationality’ between the institutions of the constitutional order—dialogue must be understood through the perspective of language as disclosing a world of common meaning and experience.

The Tears of the Hip-Hoptivist or The Rock and the Hard Place: Social Practice in the Philippines

ABSTRACTThis article explores social practice art in the Philippines. Focusing on the work of Manila-based practitioner Clara Balaguer from the Office of Culture and Design (OCD), the article examines less the work and more the barriers to practice. Examining the two key obstacles, that of the market and the Movement, the article aims to underscore the still uneven topography of the global art milieu. While exploring the possibilities and problematics of social practice in the paper – the key tension between ethics and aesthetics, something highlighted by our eponymous hip-hoptivists – what in fact remains central is the complexity of locality and the inherent impediments to social practice in the Philippines. Following the collaborative and dialogical foundations of social practice itself, the paper includes Balaguer’s comments, thoughts and responses as marginalia1a.

Europe and the political: from axiological monism to pluralistic dialogism

ABSTRACT“The political” represents a moment in which actors recognise autonomy and equality as constitutive values in the agonistic search for appropriate open-ended political outcomes. The tutelary, pedagogical and disciplinary practices of the depoliticised European Union (EU) undermine the foundations of equality in diplomatic and political engagement between continental actors. The relationship becomes axiological, where issues are deemed to have been resolved through some sort of anterior pre-political arrangement. This is a type of ahistorical political monism that ultimately claims to speak for all of Europe. The return of “the political” allows a more generous and pluralistic politics to emerge based on genuine dialogical foundations in which self and other engage as equals and are mutually transformed by that engagement.

Strategies for Meaningful Engagement between Community-Based Health Researchers and First Nations Participants.

The Baby Teeth Talk Study (BTT) is a partnership-based research project looking at interventions to prevent early childhood caries (ECC) in First Nations populations in Canada. Community-based researchers (CBRs) conducted preventive and behavioral interventions that targeted expectant mothers and their newborns, over a 3-year period. The work of the CBRs requires a great deal of training and skills to administer the interventions. It also requires a broad set of strategies to meaningfully engage participants to make health-promoting changes in their behavior to prevent ECC in their children. After implementing the intervention, BTT CBRs participated in interviews to explore the strategies they employed to engage participants in the prevention of ECC. CBRs perceived two key strategies as essential for meaningful engagement with BTT participants. First, CBRs indicated that their shared experiences through motherhood, First Nations identity, age, and childhood experience provided a positive foundation for dialog with participants that lead to build trust and rapport. Second, supportive interpersonal and culturally based communication skills of the CBR provided further foundation to engage with participants from a strength-based approach. For example, the CBRs knew how to effectively communicate in ways such as being gentle, non-intrusive, and avoiding any perception of judgment when discussing oral health behavior. In First Nations health research, CBRs can provide an essential link in engaging participants and the community for improvements in health. Researchers should carefully consider characteristics such as shared experience and ability to understand cultural communication styles when hiring CBRs in order to build a solid foundation of trust with research participants.

A contribution to the laying of foundations for dialogue between socially responsible management schools

This paper presents the outcome of a research process carried out in a public school of management whose strategy from its very origin has been thoroughly focused on social responsibility. The objective was to better map out the socially responsible contribution of the school to its stakeholders in order to enable dialogue with a group of other schools of management. The starting point of the research project is the 6th principle of PRME, according to which ”We will participate and support dialogue and debate among educators, students, business, government, consumer, media, civil society organisations and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global responsibility and sustainability”.

Bosnian multiconfessionalism as a foundation for intercultural dialogue

Muslim communities in the Balkans where the practice of Islam had been developed in the European context, can be used as an exemplification of the bridge between the Islamic East and the Christian West. Although for over 400 years Bosnia was under the Ottoman rule, Muslims became one of the many first Yugoslav, and then Bosnian communities, contributing to the dynamic, yet moderate area of ontological and axiological negotiations within the cultural borderland, sharing the living space with members of the Orthodox church, Catholics, a small Jewish community, and even Protestants. The history of the Muslim-Christian contacts in Bosnia involves both the examples of collisions, as well as encounters, initiated both by Christians, and by Muslims. This article analyzes the religious diversity (multiconfessionalism) in the historical and contemporary cultural and social context of Bosnia-Herzegovina, revealing its specificity, dynamics and (often unsuccessful) attempts to conceptualize it from the perspective of the Eurocentric discourse. The aim is not only to portray this religiously diverse makeup, but also to emphasize its potential for establishing ground for intercultural dialogue.

Relations and Relationships: Clarifying the Terms of the ‘New’ Relational Economic Sociology

In economic sociology, relations and relationships have emerged as central yet poorly specified concepts. In this paper, I clarify these terms in a positive critique of the current state of the field. I then consider the ways in which the proposed framework can help analysts to bridge the divide between economics and sociology. Armed with techniques derived from formal network analysis, the new economic sociology offered the first sustained foray into economic territory, but sociological skeptics remain unsatisfied. Two broad rejoinders to this network-analytic approach emerged in the last two decades, but both correctives, nevertheless, leave the divide intact. In the last decade, however, a new paradigm is coalescing under the rubric of “relational economic sociology. While showing promise, it furthers the confusion surrounding the key concepts of “relations” and “relationships.” The proposed framework provides a foundation for constructive dialogue among the different traditions which constitute this new paradigm.

Dialogue in Peirce, Lotman, and Bakhtin: A comparative study

Th e notion of dialogue is foundational for both Juri Lotman and Mikhail Bakhtin. It is also central in Charles S. Peirce’s semeiotics and logic. While there are several scholarly comparisons of Bakhtin’s and Lotman’s dialogisms, these have yet to be compared with Peirce’s semeiotic dialogues. Th is article takes tentative steps toward a comparative study of dialogue in Peirce, Lotman, and Bakhtin. Peirce’s understanding of dialogue is explicated, and compared with both Lotman’s as well as Bakhtin’s conceptions. Lotman saw dialogue as the basic meaning-making mechanism in the semio sphere. Th e benefi ts and shortcomings of reconceptualizing the semiosphere on the basis of Peircean and Bakhtinian dialogues are weighed. Th e aim is to explore methodological alternatives in semiotics, not to challenge Lotman’s initial model. It is claimed that the semiosphere qua model operating with Bakhtinian dialogues is narrower in scope than Lotman’s original conception, while the semiosphere qua model operating with Peircean dialogues appears to be broader in scope. It is concluded that the choice between alternative dialogical foundations must be informed by attentiveness to their diff erences, and should be motivated by the researcher’s goals and theoretical commitments.

Geology/archaeology in action: a personal perspective

This article uses Bruno Latour’s concept of Science in Action to consider the relationship between archaeology and geology. It is argued that neither the New Archaeology nor Postprocessual Archaeology provides a strong foundation for dialogue between archaeology and geology. Significant differences in temporal scale and structure pose a significant hurdle to integration of geology and archaeology. However, the practice of both disciplines is characterized by an internal tension between the use of imagination and intuition versus a reliance on data. This dynamic provides the basis for cooperation between geology and archaeology, but it must be realized that collaboration requires that geologists be seen as equal partners in inquiry rather than as specialists in service of an archaeological research agenda.

Media’s Role in Enhancing Sustainable Development in Zambia

The dual pressures of climate change and population growth in Africa make enhancing sustainable development an important focus of initiatives hoping to reach as many people as possible with appropriate innovations. Resource and infrastructure challenges often limit the ability of programs to expand through the use of extension and other forms of in-person training. Although media such as radio, television, and mobile phones cannot replace the value of interpersonal communication, they can offer a low-cost alternative for reaching large audiences in even some of the most remote regions. With the increasing use of media for sustainable development come questions relating to the ability of these channels to move beyond a one-way flow of information to include and respond to local knowledge and experiences and to create dialogue, both farmer to farmer and between farmers and designers of educational messaging. This article evaluates the role of media in promoting sustainable agriculture in Zambia. Specifically, the findings present qualitative feedback from 34 smallholder farmers targeted by Community Markets for Conservation’s current radio programming efforts around sustainable agriculture. Results demonstrate the centrality of the radio program alongside other forms of communication, such as extension and farmer-to-farmer communication, as well as written and visual communication. These findings consider direct and indirect exposure to these efforts and the importance of radio in offering a foundation for dialogue and increased social diffusion of sustainable innovations in remote regions.

Understanding the Process of Internationalization of Curriculum Studies in China: a Case Study

The movement to internationalize curriculum studies has initiated complicated worldwide conversations incorporating different nations, intellectual histories, and diversified curriculum visions. However, questions remain regarding how internationalization works in different contexts, what the goals are of such work, and in what ways it might influence the formalization of the field. How local intellectuals’ research on this topic serves to constitute and function in the process of internationalization is an area requiring further study. In examining the vanguard work of a curriculum studies center in China, this qualitative research seeks to understand the forces that drive internationalization in China, and how Chinese curriculum scholars function with, through, and around the process of “complicated conversation.” This research demonstrated that political forces, social realities, and education intellectuals are the primary subjects mobilizing and sustaining the internationalization of curriculum studies, traditional Chinese culture and wisdom serve as the foundation for equal dialogue with the international community, and the nature of the internationalization process appears to be unbounded and democratic. 课程国际化进程已促使不同国家间,不同智识传统间展开了“复杂对话”并且成就了不同的课程观。 然而,在不同的环境下,国际化工作如何进行,他们的希冀如何,又会走向何方,这些国际化工作又是怎样影响课程领域的发展还不明朗。本土的智识传统在国际化进程中的作用是什么值得进一步探索。在对中国的一个课程研究前沿中心的调研中,这个质性研究试图理解在中国有什么样的力量推动课程国际化,他们又是怎样在课程国际化历程中围绕“复杂对话”与国际上的智识来展开合作与对话。研究表明,政治力量、社会现实、和教育知识分子促进着中国的课程国际化,中国传统智识被认为是开展国际对话的根本,课程国际化的历程本身体现灵活多元而又民主的。

Ментальные основания межкультурного диалога в аспекте глобализации

Ментальные основания межкультурного диалога в аспекте глобализации

Interpersonal Skills in Dealing with Multiculturalism: Bosnian Borderland Case

The article tackles the issue of interpersonal skills that provide and ensure a foundation for intercultural dialogue and communication as recognized by the author within her own research project carried out in spring 2015 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Multitude of cultures is contemporarily a part of everyday life for many democratic countries. At the same time, cultural similarities and differences have begun to play a substantial role in the public discourses and individual biographies encountering multiculturalism on a daily basis. It consequently demands from the members of such culturally diverse societies to generate given code of communication, axiology and attitudes that enable culturally heterogenic dialogue. Otherwise, we may deal with cultural antagonism that can lead to social and political tensions questioning democratic functioning of such states and countries. Taking it into consideration, the subject of research concerns interpersonal skills manifested by the members of Bosnian multicultural communities of Sarajevo, where cultural diversity occurs both within the families as well as communities in which they function. Hence, cultural differences are part of their everyday life, manifested within cultural legacy of own community, cultural system of the family, family socialization, experienced problems resulting from cultural differences within own family and beyond it, attitudes to different representatives of cultural communities, and last but not least, within values by reason of which the cross-cultural dialogue and multicultural coexistence are possible. Consequently, multicultural, interpersonal skills should be acknowledged and practiced as a potential and concurrently as a chance for recognition of the priorities of cross-cultural education, crucial for all the democratic states worldwide.

From the islands of knowledge to a shared understanding: interdisciplinarity and technology literacy for innovation in smart electronic product design

In the context of the evolving Internet, a balance between technological advances and meaning change is crucial to develop innovative and breakthrough “connected electronics” that enable the Internet of Things. Designers and technologists are key enablers of this process respectively, ensuring adequate users’ needs and technology development, inside the evolving context of social environment and human relations. Smart electronic product design must be a truly interdisciplinary process, in which technologists are aware of how much their decisions impact the user-product relationship and designers understand the full potential and associated limitations of technology involved. Shared knowledge and communication are essential in this scenario, but, due to their technological limitations, designers are often excluded from high-level decision processes. In this paper, we address the design of constructivist tools and associated strategy to enhance the technological literacy of designers, as a strong foundation for knowledge-based dialogue between these realms. We demonstrate its effectiveness in a long-term multidisciplinary Project-Based Learning application with Design and Electronics students. We present the cases from 2 years’ experimentation (with the first year as control group) that demonstrate improvement in the quality of teamwork; in learning results; improved performance of the students reflected in the quality of the projects developed; and positive teachers’ and students’ evaluations. We conclude that the use of the proposed tool not only provides the designer an active voice in the process of designing smart electronics, but also promotes an effective common language between these two worlds.