There is a steady line of academic discourse around the topic controversial issues and how to approach them in through education. In this discourse, discussion widely seen as primary method democratic education that especially suitable foster its major educational aims, such tolerance, reciprocal respect, or political autonomy. The aim contribution show widespread emphasis on value discussions ...

This paper tackles the issue of women and religion through a particular looking glass: religious utterances such as curses, supplication, and prayer, as reflected in some passages from ancient Greek epic and tragedy—pivotal literary genres in the ideological discourse of the Greek polis.

The 1979 religious ideological revolution of Iran brought about a double stance towards the body and its pictorial representations, as to drawing a schism between the physiological and the cultural aspects of the body. Studying this schism is important particularly due to its significance in figuring out the features and functions of what in this article will be called “the ideological body”. B...

To reduce the passivity of students in large lectures, we propose to enhance the classroom with the digital backchannel Backstage, which aims at promoting awareness and participation. We tested Backstage in a preliminary user study at a relatively early stage of development. Besides gaining first impressions of usability, we were particularly interested in the kinds of questions raised on Backs...

Received wisdom in Primary science classroom teaching advocates the use of open questions for elicitation. The sociocultural perspective on discourse, however, leads one to question the usual classification of questioning by its grammatical formality and leads instead to an analysis of the discourse in the socio-cultural context which includes the background of the children. In this paper we de...

Although Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has been developing rapidly, it faces strong criticism from scholars due to its lack of attention to the cognitive aspects of discourse. As a fundamental cognitive tool to conceptualize the world, metaphor plays a vital role in constructing social reality. Providing a particular perspective of viewing the reality, metaphor forms an important part of id...

Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete agent-based model based on graph theory and local optimization. In a series of thought experiments, actors compute their utility of contributing a ...

The political discourse on the problem of state survival in Turkey is hegemonic. What central to this Sévresphobia: idea that surrounded by internal and external enemies who are ready destroy it. This article aims explain why sustains itself over time how it captures collective mode being. argues fantasmatic narratives play an important role maintaining hegemonic governing anxiety. First, simpl...