Dialogic approaches based on active student participation, open, respectful discussion, exploring and critiquing different perspectives are increasingly found to support learning. However, the specific productive forms of teacher-student interaction have rarely been studied systematically. A recent large-scale project explored relationship between dialogic learning outcomes for students aged 10...

According to Bourdieu, class position is related cultural capital, taste, and preferences. Accordingly, the author states that, because of their “habitus,” those from high social classes have higher capital preferences for highbrow culture, which gives them more chances succeed in life. On contrary, low lower lowbrow preferences, makes it difficult achieve a system that favors dominant classes....

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

Laughing is examined auditorily and acoustico-graphically, on the basis of exemplary speech data from spontaneous German dialogues, as pulmonic air stream modulation for communicative functions, paying attention to fine phonetic detail in interactional context. These phonetic case descriptions of laughing phenomena in speaker interaction in a small corpus have as their goal to create an awarene...

This study seeks to gauge the level of engagement and interaction seven Ministries Foreign Affairs from Americas with citizens who requested assistance through Twitter during first months covid-19 pandemic. Among results obtained significant differences are identified, notably an increase in dialogic communication respect previous studies, explained by state emergency. In addition, countries th...