the present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers’ practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. the study benefitted from conversation analytic perspective to qualitatively and interpretively examine the classroom discourse of the teacher-learner interaction. the classroom talk was analyzed th...

This article addresses how the professional identity of a teacher is constructed through narrative with two intended goals: 1) to examine the ways in which theories of teacher education are embedded in professional identity, and 2) to suggest the inclusion of individual narrative analysis as a reflective tool in professional development and teacher education. A teacher’s spontaneous conversatio...

Conversation Theory and a dynamic protolanguage, Lp, are used to illustrate an al'gulllent in favour of reflective and relativistic theories in Cybernetics and Systems Studies.

The concept of shared governance was used to frame the dialogue and decision-making process around the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at a leading School of Nursing. This article reports the process used to support dialogue around the DNP so that an informed decision could be made. The shared governance process promoted reflective conversation within the entire faculty and, in the end, suppor...

This paper proposes an ontological account of a recent model of software engineering: emergent design. This model augments traditional software design approaches by accounting for incremental and unexpected modifications of the design state space. We show that the principles of emergent design are consistent with a model of designing as a reflective conversation. We use the situated function-be...