This study investigated the changes in conceptions on mathematics teaching and learning of preservice BScEd teachers after 12 weeks of full time teaching practice. Written answers to open ended questions administered at the beginning and end of student teaching were triangulated with interviews. The preservice teachers exhibited more differences in conceptions on teaching than on learning mathe...

INTRODUCTION By providing a structured forum to exchange information and ideas, multidisciplinary team meetings improve working relationships, expedite investigations, promote evidence-based treatment, and ultimately improve clinical outcomes. METHODS This discursive paper reports the introduction of a multidisciplinary team approach to manage hepatobiliary diseases in Jamaica, focusing on th...

This paper presents a method for automatic summarization by deleting intra-sentence discourse segments. First, each sentence is divided into elementary discourse units and, then, less informative segments are deleted. To analyze the results, we have set up an annotation campaign, thanks to which we have found interesting aspects regarding the elimination of discourse segments as an alternative ...

Multi-documents sheets are viewed as semantically structured representations of textual documents. The automatic construction of these sheets is based on the automatic annotation of textual documents according to a set of discursive categories called discursive mining viewpoints. The automatic annotation of a text is performed using the Contextual Exploration processing. It is a linguistic and ...

This paper describes a meta-communication model and illustrates its applicability. The model integrates previous discursive approaches to reflective practice and extends them with additional relevant concepts. The concepts of the model are mainly based on Habermas’ discourse theory. By means of case examples, this paper also illustrates how the model can be used for collective sense-making, i.e...

this article focuses on zadie smith’s the autograph manin anattempt to see whether smith is for the multiculturalist discourse orcriticizes it. to this end, two major themes of “identity” and “space” areexamined. it is argued that smith offers a counter-narrative to oppose ratherthan support multiculturalism. in fact, what is known as multiculturalistaspects of smith’s work is just a mere refle...

This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology, and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how ...

Theo Hug is associate professor of educational sciences at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and coordinator of the Innsbruck Media Studies research group. He is author and/or editor of several books on various aspects of media, communication, and education (www.hug-web.at). Abstract Recent years have seen the rise of Internet technologies that facilitate activities that are above all socia...

In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly ‘swim against the stream’ of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our...

The article is devoted to the analysis of discursive construction picture world in axiological aspect using example comments from community subscribers “Novaya Gazeta” Instagram service. object research ways transmitting value information named practice.