Critical pedagogy (CP) empowers L2 learners to have a voice in the classroom and in the society. This study was an attempt to investigate whether the current classroom discourse  in  Iran  can  endow  the  L2  learners with  a  critical  awareness  to  actively transform their learning processes and creatively engage in collaborative dialogues to construct new knowledge. To this end, the discou...

OBJECTIVE to understand the interactions of nurses managing nursing care for the hospitalized child with a chronic condition. METHOD Theoretical and methodological references were used, Complex Thought and grounded theory, respectively. In the study 18 subjects have participated arranged in three groups: nurses, nursing technicians and family members. A semi-structured interview was used as t...

Stemplewska-Żakowicz, Walecka and Gabińska describe a novel empirical examination of one of the basic premises of Dialogical Self theory; namely, whether different Ipositions produce different self-narratives. Their analysis led them to discover several interesting findings, some of which stem directly from dialogical self theory and some of which are more surprising. Stemplewska-Żakowicz and c...

We present in this article an architecture implementing personality traits from the FFM/NEO PI-R taxonomy as influence operators upon the rational decision making process of dialogical agents. The objective is to separate designer-dependent resources (traits taxonomies, influence operators, behaviors/operators links) from the core part of the computational implementation (the personality engine...

When informal arguments are presented, there may be imprecision in the language used, and so the audience may be uncertain as to the structure of the argument graph as intended by the presenter of the arguments. For a presenter of arguments, it is useful to know the audience’s argument graph, but the presenter may be uncertain as to the structure of it. To model the uncertainty as to the struct...

This paper proposes mechanisms for agents to model other agents’ arguments, so that modelling agents can anticipate the likelihood that their interlocutors can constructs arguments in dialogues. In contrast with existing works on “opponent modelling” which treat arguments as abstract entities, the likelihood that an agent can construct an argument is derived from the likelihoods that it possess...