This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented in the context of a case study of innovation in APC-MGE Ireland, a subsidiary of the critical power and cooling services division of the Schneider Electric Corporation. The...

In this chapter, we introduce a new dialogical system for first order classical logic which is close to natural language argumentation, and prove its completeness with respect usual validity. We combine our the Grail syntactic semantic parser developed by second author in address automated textual entailment, that is, use it deciding whether or not sentence consequence of short text. This work—...

The overarching message of this monograph is that cognition and cognitive development are inseparable from social adaptation. Although not new, this message has often tended either to be ignored or to take a backseat in the quest for a machinelike description and explanation of cognition and its development. The report of Jaffe, Beebe, Feldstein, Crown, and Jasnow is another wake-up call to the...

This paper offers a non-representational alternative to semiotic notions of meaning as the designatum of signs, the content of messages, or what a text is about. It derives from considerations of how things — artifacts and objects of nature — could mean something to somebody. Rather than treating things as signs of themselves and thereby undermining the two-world ontology of semiotics, it explo...

Despite several insightful empirical studies on how new knowledge is created in organizations, there is still no satisfactory answer to the question, how is new knowledge created in organizations? The purpose of this paper is to address this question by focusing on direct social interaction, adopting a dialogical approach. The following argument is advanced. From a dialogical perspective, new k...

The metaphor of dialogue between constitutional jurisdictions and legislatures was born in Canada to describe the role Supreme Court after adoption Charter Rights Freedoms 1982. Then he engaged Anglo-American academic space comparative law. It is relationship judiciary deliberative paradigm that raises questions, as it difficult see how supervisory function judge his authority repeal or amend l...

This paper revisits two teacher-education contexts which we independently researched. Both invested in teacher-professional transformation, presenting unique puzzles our respective data analyses. Bringing together Bakhtinian dialogic theory and Natural Inclusionality (Rayner, 2017), return to these a reflective dialogue. The unpacks emergent themes. first theme details sense-making of the dialo...