Dealing with a disagreeing partner: Relational and epistemic conflict elaboration

Organizational Systems for Dealing with Conflict & Learning from Conflict: Introduction

Ideas about conflict are compelling topics for those of us who work in organizations. We think about workplace justice, alternative versus appropriate dispute resolution, and how to help leaders and teams deal effectively with the concerns and conflicts that preoccupy them. We think about organizational systems for dealing with conflict and learning from conflict. The present authors prefer thi...

Dealing with Software Metrics Collection and Analysis: a Relational Approach

The area of software metrics is constantly changing. New measures are proposed every day and tools for data collection and analysis have to be updated frequently in order to handle changes. A possible approach to reduce the number of changes and their complexity is the use of an intermediate layer able to decouple the extraction and the analysis of the information. In this way, researchers do n...

Disagreeing with the Pyrrhonist?

For the Pyrrhonian skeptic, disagreement is an integral part of the skeptical way of inquiry (see Pyrrhonian Outlines I 165).1 The fact that there is undecidable disagreement about a given issue makes the Pyrrhonian skeptic unable to decide that issue, and suspension of judgment emerges. But is suspension of judgment the appropriate response in this case? In this paper, I address two related to...

Dealing With Disagreement: Distinguishing Two Types of Epistemic Peers

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...