In Volume 3, #1 of the Journal of Technology Education, Pannabecker (1991) identified shortcomings in the language that has shaped perspectives within technology education, and raised an issue for dialogue. This essay is intended to extend Pannabecker's critique to include the metaphors of autonomous and advancing technology, and their supporting ideology of technological progress. Reasons for ...

structures of explicit reasoning, or to simple notions of constructing shared knowledge. They consist more in a divergent exploration of a field of potential perspectives on a topic. Through using this tool participants report that they are stimulated to think more deeply (Wegerif, Ravenscroft and McAlister, 2005). Conclusions The teaching and learning of general thinking skills, especially cre...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...

Challenging an attitude toward fallibility in medical practice which they see as outdated and detrimental to patient care, the authors suggest a new approach to self-evaluation and peer review by physicians. Arguing that knowledge grows from recognition of error, they submit ten proposals aimed at the development of a new professional ethics that would encourage physicians to admit and analyze...