scholarly journals Dialogic Learning as an Alternative Approach for Mathematics Classrooms

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (34) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Raquel Carneiro Dörr
Keyword(s):  
Written Language ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Dialogic Learning ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Over Time

This article characterizes the Dialogic Learning (DL) approach, presenting its constitutive elements using the literature related to the studies that have dealt with this theme in the specific context of practices and learning in math classes. In this way, the conception of dialogue that is practiced lies in the interaction between educator and learner through written language. The text also reports and shows two illustrative records that are used to establish a discussion about the importance of the activity and to emphasize how significant would be to disseminate the methodology amid math teachers at all educational levels. The DL approach aggregates important dimensions of communication and interaction between participants that are necessary to construct a differentiated idea about making mathematics, replacing the restrictive image disseminated over time by the classic lecture classes.

Quel corpus pour l’étude du dialecte niçois ?

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-361
Author(s):  
Philippe Del Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Descriptive Grammar ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

Abstract A new project has just been launched to write a synchronic, descriptive grammar of Niçois, the Occitan dialect of Nice. In this article, I define the corpus of the research. To do so, I first review written production from the Middle Ages to the present. I then analyze the linguistic features of Niçois over time, in order to determine the precise starting point of the current language state. But because of reinforced normativism and the decreasing social use of Niçois among the educated population, written language after WWII became artificial and does not really correspond to recordings made in the field. The corpus will thus be composed of writings from the 1820’s to WWII and recordings from the last few decades.

‘Scene’ as a critical framing device: Extending analysis of chemsex cultures

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072199546
Author(s):  
Kerryn Drysdale
Keyword(s):  
Entry Point ◽  
Temporal Logics ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Expert Commentary ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Male Culture

The term ‘chemsex’ references an identifiable set of circumstances and behaviours ascribed to gay male culture at the same time as operating as a politically salient category capable of spurring policy and programmatic responses. Increasingly, the word ‘scene’ is used in association with ‘chemsex’ in media reporting, expert commentary and research on the phenomenon. Rather than dismissing the coupling of chemsex and scene as mere vernacular, ‘scene’ offers a fruitful entry point for exploring how the combination of sex and drugs achieves cultural salience over time. In this article, I read chemsex cultures through the material and representational elements characteristic of ‘scene’. By emphasizing scenes’ temporal logics, I speculate on the value of this alternative approach in generating new understandings of chemsex cultures.

scholarly journals Beyond the Aggregate Score: Using Multilevel Modeling to Examine Trajectories of Laboratory-Measured Aggression

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chester
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Taylor Aggression Paradigm ◽  
Trait Aggression ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Tit For Tat ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Capture Trajectories ◽  
Over Time

Aggression is often measured in the laboratory as an iterative ‘tit-for-tat’ sequence, in which two aggressors repeatedly inflict retaliatory harm upon each other. Aggression researchers typically quantify aggression by aggregating across participants’ aggressive behavior on such iterative encounters. However, this ‘aggregate approach’ cannot capture trajectories of aggression across the iterative encounters and needlessly eliminates rich information in the form of within-participant variability. As an alternative approach, I employed multilevel modeling to examine the slope of aggression across the 25-trial Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP) as a function of trait physical aggression and experimental provocation. Across two preregistered studies (combined N = 392), participants exhibited a modest decline in aggression. This decline reflected a reciprocal strategy, in which participants responded to an initially-provocative opponent with greater aggression that then decreased over time in order to matched their opponent’s declining levels of aggression. Against predictions, trait physical aggression and experimental provocation did not affect participants’ overall trajectories of aggression. Yet exploratory analyses suggested that participants’ tendency to reciprocate their opponent’s aggression with more aggression was greater at higher levels of trait physical aggression and attenuated among participants who had already been experimentally-provoked by their opponent. These findings (a) illustrate several advantages of a multilevel modeling approach as compared to an aggregate approach to iterative laboratory aggression paradigms, (b) demonstrate that the magnifying effects of trait aggression and experimental provocation on laboratory aggression are stable over brief time-frames, and (c) suggest that modeling the opponent’s behavior on such tasks reveals important information.

scholarly journals Emerging, crystalizing, and changing psychological contracts over time: Introducing the iPC-network model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Vantilborgh
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
Exchange Relationships ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

This chapter introduces the individual Psychological Contract (iPC) network model as an alternative approach to study psychological contracts. This model departs from the basic idea that a psychological contract forms a mental schema containing obligated inducements and contributions, which are exchanged for each other. This mental schema is captured by a dynamic network, in which the nodes represent the inducements and contributions and the ties represent the exchanges. Building on dynamic systems theory, I propose that these networks evolve over time towards attractor states, both at the level of the network structure and at the level of the nodes (i.e., breach and fulfilment attractor states). I highlight how the iPC-network model integrates recent theoretical developments in the psychological contract literature and explain how it may advance scholars understanding of exchange relationships. In particular, I illustrate how iPC-network models allow researchers to study the actual exchanges in the psychological contract over time, while acknowledging its idiosyncratic nature. This would allow for more precise predictions of psychological contract breach and fulfilment consequences and explains how content and process of the psychological contract continuously influence each other.

scholarly journals Power in relations of international organisations: The productive effects of ‘good’ governance norms in global health

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-414
Author(s):  
Laura Pantzerhielm ◽  
Anna Holzscheiter ◽  
Thurid Bahr
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn recent years, scholarship on international organisations (IO) has devoted increasing attention to the relations in which IOs are embedded. In this article, we argue that the rationalist-institutionalist core of this scholarship has been marked by agentic, repressive understandings of power and we propose an alternative approach to power as productive in and of relations among IOs. To study productive power in IO relations, we develop a theoretical framework centred on the concept of ‘metagovernance norms’ as perceptions about the proper ‘governance of governance’ that are shared among IOs in a governance field. Drawing on discourse theory, we contend that metagovernance norms unfold productive power effects, as dominant notions of how to govern well and effectively (i) fix meanings, excluding alternative understandings and (ii) are inscribed into practices and institutions, hence reshaping inter-organisational relations over time. To illustrate our framework, we trace metagovernance norms in discourses among health IOs since the 1990s. We find a historical transformation from beliefs in the virtues of partnerships, pluralisation, and innovation, towards discursive articulations that emphasise harmonisation, order, and alignment. Moreover, we expose the productive power of metagovernance norms by showing how they were enacted through practices and institutions in the global health field.

scholarly journals PROCESSES OF LOCALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF LOCAL MANAGERS IN ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS IN DANISH OWNED SUBSIDIARIES IN ESTONIA, LATVIA AND LITHUANIA AROUND THE 21ST CENTURY

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanette Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Formal And Informal Institutions ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

This study identifies interplay between the localization processes and formal as well as informal institutions in a specific context. Particularly the changes over time in institutions and localization processes are in focus. A longitudinal study of institutional changes in local management has been conducted from 1997 to 2002 among local CEOs, chief accountants and production managers in a Danish SME, using mainly qualitative methods. Data have been compared to primary data from similar companies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The study has resulted in establishing a model for comparing interplay between localization processes in SMEs and the formal and informal institutions in different transition and post‐transition economies.

scholarly journals The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pontus Plavén-Sigray ◽  
Granville James Matheson ◽  
Björn Christian Schiffler ◽  
William Hedley Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Written Language ◽  
Scientific Process ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Biomedical Journals ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTClarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. The understandability of written language can be estimated using readability formulae. Here, in a corpus consisting of 707 452 scientific abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 from 122 influential biomedical journals, we show that the readability of science is steadily decreasing. Further, we demonstrate that this trend is indicative of a growing usage of general scientific jargon. These results are concerning for scientists and for the wider public, as they impact both the reproducibility and accessibility of research findings.

Language and ageing – exploring propositional density in written language – stability over time

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 743-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Spencer ◽  
Hugh Craig ◽  
Alison Ferguson ◽  
Kim Colyvas
Keyword(s):  
Written Language ◽  
Over Time

Ryoki Ikeda and the Prioritising of Space over Time in Musical Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-384
Author(s):  
Adam Collis
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Broadband Spectrum ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Musical Discourse ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Over Time

No art form so rigorously organises time as music. Whereas all art in some sense exists in time, music could be said to be of time. This article, however, questions implicit assumptions about the fundamental nature of time to music. In contrast, an alternative approach to the discourse of composition and analysis is proposed in which space rather than time is privileged. Russolo, Stockhausen, Cage and Agostino Di Scipio are cited as historical precedents where the status of time in music is questioned but a more detailed consideration is given to Ryoji Ikeda, a contemporary sound-art practitioner who, it is argued, represents a turn towards the privileging of space in contemporary music practice. This article argues that an approach to composition that implicitly accepts the primacy of time tends to privilege sounds that are more easily described symbolically, such as notated pitched sounds or materials with clear spectromorphological design. In contrast, an approach that places greater concern with the work in space facilitates the greater use of materials that could be considered ‘noise’, in the sense of both a broadband spectrum and signal disruption.

scholarly journals Evolving Visual Routines

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Patrick Johnson ◽  
Pattie Maes ◽  
Trevor Darrell
Keyword(s):  
Vision System ◽  
Artificial Evolution ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Visual Routines ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Programming Techniques ◽  
Natural Living ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Evolution Approach

Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a complete, labeled description of the world [10]. Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and proposed an alternative model that considers perception as a distributed collection of task-specific, context-driven visual routines [1, 12]. Some of these researchers have argued that in natural living systems these visual routines are the product of natural selection [11]. So far, researchers have hand-coded task-specific visual routines for actual implementations (e.g., [3]). In this article we propose an alternative approach in which visual routines for simple tasks are created using an artificial evolution approach. We present results from a series of runs on actual camera images, in which simple routines were evolved using genetic programming techniques [7]. The results obtained are promising: The evolved routines are able to process correctly up to 93% of the test images, which is better than any algorithm we were able to write by hand.

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