scholarly journals What Works in Democratic Dialogue?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satu Kalliola ◽  
Tuula Heiskanen ◽  
Riikka Kivimäki
Keyword(s):  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic Dialogue ◽  
Organizational Patterns ◽  
Workplace Development ◽  
Global World ◽  
Underlying Processes

As the global world produces new social problems and the continuously changing environment of work organizations calls for new modes of operation, there emerges a need for discussion forums to analyze and find practical solutions, involving the people concerned. This article examines, within the framework of realist evaluation, the potential of democratic dialogue, a Nordic method of workplace development, to generate outcomes that are put into practice in work organizations. Democratic dialogue is seen as a social program that, by providing the participants with new resources and new reasoning in work conferences and other dialogue forums, enables them to make new choices. The focus is on three Finnish action research networks applying democratic dialogue, and the recompilation of these cases along the Context-Mechanism-Outcomes formula of realist evaluation. Changes in the organizational patterns of communication, linked to the criteria of democratic dialogue and the design of work conferences, are identified and examined through the lenses of varied organizational concepts that elaborate the underlying processes generating change. The article suggests further research to compare cases with the same starting points but differing outcomes to trace the finer distinctions in the preconditions for accomplishing the desired objectives.

On Advisor Education: Evaluating Departmental Training and Professional Development Practices of Academic Staff in a Japanese University

Relay Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 271-291
Author(s):  
Huw Davies
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Peer Observation ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
Training Aids ◽  
The People ◽  
The University ◽  
Initial Research

This study is an evaluation of the professional development (PD) programme for learning advisors employed in the self-access centre at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan. The research issue investigated was whether the PD activities of advisors allow them to provide appropriate support to students at the University. The implementation of policies, the people and the setting were all considered in building an understanding of what may make the programme work. The framework used to understand this programme is realist evaluation (Pawson & Tilley, 1997), in which theories related to the initial research issue were refined and developed to offer new perspectives. Results suggest that initial training aids advisors in supporting students, but that future implementation decisions are needed for the mentoring element of the programme and on whether more peer observation should take place. The implication that informal discussion among the workgroup and the freedom to choose personal PD journeys are fundamental drivers of effective practice is a finding that may be applied to other teacher and advisor education settings.

scholarly journals ANALISIS BISNIS DAN TREN KONSUMSI MASYARAKAT KABUPATEN BANGKALAN TERHADAP FROZEN FOOD PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-68
Author(s):  
Atik
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Frozen Food ◽  
The People ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
Depth Interviews

The shift in consumer behaviour and food fulfilment by people who initially shopped for fresh good food ingredients during the pandemic is predicted to require fast food with long durability, so this can be an opportunity for developing the food business in the future, especially in the development of the frozen food business. The purpose of this study is to explore the interests and consumption trends of the people of Bangkalan Regency towards frozen food and describe how frozen food business analysis can be developed by MSMEs and home-based culinary business actors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research methodology used is qualitative, with a phenomenological paradigm approach. Data were collected using questionnaires, group discussion forums (FGD), and in-depth interviews, where all the information was selected by purposive sampling. The results showed an increase in frozen food consumption during the pandemic, extensive business opportunities opened up in the frozen food sector, and frozen food could be an alternative to fulfil food needs during the pandemic. Keywords: Frozen Food Business, Consumption Trends, Covid 19 Pandemic

A Final Word

2019 ◽  
pp. 334-339
Author(s):  
James W. Underhill ◽  
Mariarosaria Gianninoto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The People ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Global World ◽  
Multilingual Approach ◽  
East West

The authors end their study of the four keywords by reflecting on the consequences of recent events relating to Europe and the increasing need for us to find shared keywords in the global world. Having begun with Raymond Williams’ definition of keywords and taken on board a multilingual approach to keywords as ideological concepts, the authors review the ways the people has taken on radical forms in Britain, France and Germany, while at other times it has been heralded as the motor of history in Chinese and Czechoslovak communist rhetoric. The adoption of Western keywords such as citizen and individual proves to be just as political, the authors conclude. And Europe is no less political, whether it is a question of celebrating it as an ideal, defending it as a project, or attacking it from without or from within. The authors conclude with the hope that they have managed to move beyond national prejudice and beyond reductive stereotypes. The model their corpus-based research provides is one in which three levels of complexity must be taken into account. Each tradition is complex and changing in any linguistic or cultural exchange, and the migration of meanings between any two cultures proves equally complex. By seeking to represent the various ways Chinese authors respond to the diversity of European conceptualizations of the four keywords, the authors hope to have taken readers beyond East-West models, and Communist-Capitalist models, simplistic oppositions which break down as soon as we consider how individual authors express themselves in any given language at any given moment in history. This book is about words, and what happens when meanings migrate, but it is also about worldviews, and how we live within them, learning to express ourselves with words.

The Power, Peril, and Promise of Information Technology to Community Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie C. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Online Communities Of Practice ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Global World ◽  
Changing Rate

The democratization of information serves as a powerful force for change in both our lives and our global world. The paradigm shift from the providers of information to the users of the information has in many cases been brought about through the use of information technologies and the creation of more diverse and accessible Web-enabled devices. Educational equity helps to provide democratic and accessible educational opportunities for all citizenry and supports the tenets of community education. The question arises whether the proliferation of information brings power, peril, or promise for the communities of the world and the people it serves. This chapter investigates the changing rate of information, how it is distributed through online communities of practice and social networks, and what impact some of this information may have on areas of interest for training, research, and online development in fields of education, law enforcement, medicine, and sociology.

scholarly journals Тhe Transnational Paradoxes of the Global World: Cultural Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
Yevheniia Bilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Partial Control ◽  
The People ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Global World

The article deals with the critical analysis of the symptoms of the transnational world, which is interpreted as a symbolic order, prone to automatic self-reproduction and inertia of functioning in the machine mode of transgression through the legitimation of its own shortcomings. The main trauma is the basic conflict between the owners of the capital and the employees expressed at the level of everyday reality due to the change of the structure in communication between "people of time" (third wave) and "people of space" (first wave). The "people of time" appear as ideologues who create manipulative realities for "people of space", as dogmatists held in a situation of partial control and utilitarian use. The result of the ideological shift of the basic conflict into the field of culture are the numerous secondary conflicts, one of which is the paradox generated at the level of the symbolic order between globalism and multiculturalism itself, between the politics of unification and the politics of identities as a mechanism for supporting homeostasis. The appearance of this paradox indicates a real socio-economic contradiction masked by the "open suture" (tactics of uncovered information in hyper-realism). At the level of regional politics, this is manifested in a selective attitude to the locations in their struggle against unitary state governments and to those governments themselves, depending on their globalist or anti-globalist orientation.

scholarly journals MUSYAWARAH MUFAKAT ATAU PEMILIHAN LEWAT SUARA MAYORITAS DISKURSUS POLA DEMOKRASI DI INDONESIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Dessi Permatasari ◽  
Cahyo Seftyono
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Majority Vote ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
National Scale ◽  
The People ◽  
Fundamental Reason ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government ◽  
Global World

Democracy is the most popular system in our political discourse, not only in the global world but also in Indonesia. Democracy presents the common interest of people. Using all the infra-structure and supra-structure, the people interest could be contested as a government policy. The government policy, in Indonesia, has been produced in two mechanisms: Musyawarah Mufakat and Majority vote. Both of them based on our value called Pancasila. With the problem in democracy including space and number of people, musyawarah mufakat sometime replace in another process like majority vote. The example for majority vote is election, in national both in national scale and local scale such as Citi, Residence, and Province. But in other place musyawarah mufakat also perform in the making of policy in legislative level. In some case, the decision of discourse for government problems was decided by musyawarah mufakat. So, in this case, Musyawarah mufakat and Majority vote are same in the range of democracy system. Both of them also have fundamental reason that has fundamental reason as implementation of Pancasila as national value.

Legitimation strategies and theistic worldview in sociopolitical discourse: A systemic functional critical discourse analysis of Pakistani social media discussions

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-260
Author(s):  
Snobra Rizwan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Abstract This study employs a systemic functional critical discourse analytical approach to the analysis of integrated theistic worldview of Pakistani social media users. To achieve its end, the study focuses on legitimation strategies, where these strategies serve to construct certain truth claims of the people. So, three thousand comments (comprising 8,401 words and 90,423 words) from online discussion forums of Dawn.com and Zemtv.com were studied and discourse samples were collected for in-depth analysis. The legitimation strategies, it is argued, are condensed and interpersonally charged through certain lexico-grammatical choices which embody people’s integrated theistic worldviews. The identity(ies) and identification claims of Pakistanis are found to be internally cohesive, based on theistic legitimation claims. To represent, legitimize and justify their worldviews, Pakistani social media users recontextualize discourses constructed from various combinations of discursive strategies, supported by references to Islamic scripture and popular narratives. The study is a prelude to a more detailed investigation of discursive strategies which represent (de)legitimized worldview and discourses internalized by Pakistani Muslims. Such studies provide deeper insights into (de)construction of (de)legitimation strategies of a society and facilitate further development of systemic functional critical discourse analytical approaches to text and context relations.

scholarly journals Maritime and Other Key Transport Issues for the Future – Education and Training in the Context of Lifelong Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-98
Author(s):  
Jeannette Edler ◽  
Virginia Infante
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
Global World ◽  
Future Education ◽  
The Impact

The entire transport system will transform into an integrated transport system in response to future trends and demands. The EU Skilful project defines the impact on job profiles across all transport modes and at all levels of work and duties. Changing and emerging job profiles require training which on the one hand makes use of the latest training and education methods, while on the other meeting the need for the acquisition of special competencies, skills and abilities. The demand for individualization of training contents will soar in the interlinked global world and integrated transport systems. An additional questionnaire was conducted in the spring of 2018, in the assessment of the maritime and transport sectors. The answers of course lecturers and organisers concerning present and future needs and lifelong learning issues were instructive, with most of the people having concrete ideas about lifelong learning. Courses will therefore include future oriented contents, a practicable registration procedure with information for qualified trainers capable of tailoring course contents to the specific focus of the course and participants’ requirements, giving excellent lectures with relevant learning material and real usable factors, clear structure, practical parts, remarks of concrete relevance, communication parts for improving soft skills, experience exchange and learning from other participants, intercultural aspects for globalization, reconciling mixed group needs and requirements and learning to learn methods, using different adult suitable methods and finally focusing on emotions to capitalize on the motivation to learn. Lifelong learning is a key issue for successful employers and employees.

scholarly journals Education and open society

2002 ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Tripkovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Good Education ◽  
The People ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Global World ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
Investments In Education

Reflecting the relation between the "open society" (K. Popper) and education, in this paper the author claims that openness of a society correlates positively with the domination of "acquired" social position over "ascribed" social positions and with education as the main channel of vertical social mobility. Pointing out that no society has reached the ideal of equal start chances for everybody, i.e. that social competition can be described in the best was as a "competition of the unequal", the author claims that good education is a strategic goal of every "good society" (J. K. Galbraith), which means that investments in education is the best proof that in a society long-term goals are more important that short-term ones. Education does not have exclusively economic meaning, but a political and social role as well. As a barrier to extremism, good education makes democracy possible, even inevitable. Furthermore, education makes views of the people wider, helping them to enjoy its social-cultural heritage and values, both inside a society and on a global world level. In spite of its individual and social importance, it can be said that education today does not have an adequate state support for its development. This policy is not a correct one, because education and open society, if they are not synonyms, surely are closely and deeply linked and mutually dependent: there is no real education without open society, and there is no really open society without good education.

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