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The Analysis and Reconciliation of Students' Rebuttals in Argumentation Activities
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Lin, Yu-Ren; Hung, Jeng-Fung – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The present study investigated the guidance provided by science teachers to resolve conflicts during socioscientific issue-based argumentation activities. A graphical representation (GR) was developed as a tool to code and analyze the dialogue interaction process. Through the GR and qualitative analysis, we identified three types of dialogue…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Interaction Process Analysis
Free Choice and Free Play in Early Childhood Education: Troubling the Discourse
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Wood, Elizabeth Ann – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This article troubles the established discourse of free choice and free play in early childhood education, and develops post-structural approaches to theorising children's agency in the context of institutional and relational power structures. It is widely accepted that planning a curriculum based on children's needs, interests and patterns of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Naturalistic Observation, Qualitative Research
Competing Constraints in Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Interactional Achievement of Formality and Informality in Mediation.
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Smith, Calvin D. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Offers a preliminary analysis of meditations conducted by the Queensland Community Justice Program. The conflict between the need to provide a standardized formal process and the philosophical commitment to disputant control over the dispute process and outcome is examined. Strategies providing methods to manage this conflict are discussed.…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interaction Process Analysis
A Problem-Solving Workshop on Border Conflicts in Eastern Africa
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Walton, Richard E. – Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1970
Six participants each from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya participated in a workshop to search for solutions to the border disputes between Somalia and her two neighbors. This pilot venture, a mixture of successes and failures, can provide the basis for improvement and extension of the concept. Followed by critical comments by John E. Harr, Otto…
Descriptors: African Culture, Behavioral Science Research, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries
Course Teams: Myth and Actuality.
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Crick, Malcolm – Distance Education, 1980
Argues for the development of group intervention techniques to improve the efficacy of course teams in the preparation of distance education materials, reviews recent commentaries on course teams and discusses related issues, and conludes with recommendations to enrich the quality of course team life and output. (Author/EAO)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
The Impact of the Political Context on Discourse Characteristics in Jewish-Arab Encounters in Israel: Between Peace Talks and Violent Events
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Sagy, Shifra; Steinberg, Shoshana; Diab, Hansaa – Intercultural Education, 2006
Research in the field of intergroup relations has developed considerably over the last two decades, influenced by events and by the historical zeitgeist. We suggest applying an interactional way of dealing with intergroup encounters, which emphasizes the situational macro-context (political, historical and social) in which the contact takes place.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Jews, Intergroup Relations