The current emphasis on higher order thinking skills (HOTS) has inspired many EFL educators to explore the impact of merging different pedagogical teaching and assessment strategies on the enhancement of thinking skills. Responding to such a growing need to investigate the effect of diverse teaching strategies on HOTS, the present study aimed to explore the impact of the integration of portfoli...

The “visionary leader” narrative and Performance Mindset that predominate in theories and practices of change leadership are no longer effective in an environment of multi-dimensional diversity marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Developments over the past thirty years in organization development theory and practice, which have led to what we call Dialogic Organization...

The linguistic-communicative paradigm offers some interesting perspectives in a context where the perception of patient needs is considered a critical step in high-quality care. This study describes healthcare organizations as linguistic communities based on the conceptual framework of Habermas' communicative action theory. Four communicative models are present in healthcare settings: objectify...

What does it take to argue well? The goal of this series of studies was to better understand the cognitive skills entailed in argument, and their course of development, isolated from the verbal and social demands that argumentive discourse also entails. Findings indicated that young adolescents are less able than adults to coordinate attention to both positions in an argument, an agerelated pat...

We consider a " polarized " version of bi-intuitionistic logic [9, 7, 10, 11] as a logic of assertions and hypotheses and show that it supports a " rich proof theory " and an interesting categorical interpretation, unlike the standard approach of C. Rauszer's Heyting-Brouwer logic [48, 49], whose categorical models are all partial orders by Crolard's theorem [19]. We show that P. A.Mellì es not...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the role a group facilitator when taking dialogical stance. A special interest facilitator’s processual responsiveness and its potential for supporting dialogic approach process facilitation. Design/methodology/approach Theoretically, article based dialogue dialectic relationship theory. Empirically, it pragmatic analysis excerpts from audio ...