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Colloque: Sélection scolaire et inégalités sociales: Bourdieu et l'école du 21ème siècle

2010-06-07T11:05:00.004+02:00

Sélection scolaire et inégalités sociales: Bourdieu et l'école du 21ème siècle
Colloque organisé par la Haute Ecole pédagogique de Fribourg (en collaboration avec l'Institut de plurilinguisme de l'Université de Fribourg et de la HEP Fribourg).

Résumé:

Notre système scolaire est-il (in)égalitaire ? Comment la sélection scolaire se déroule-t-elle et à qui profite-t-elle? Comment les inégalités sociales se manifestent-elles en salle de classe ? En quoi une approche sociologique de l’espace scolaire est-elle pertinente ?

Ces questions ont été à maintes reprises soulevées par Pierre Bourdieu, invitant les acteurs pédagogiques à s’interroger sur le système scolaire comme espace de reproduction sociale. A l’occasion du 80ème anniversaire de la naissance du sociologue, nous avons souhaité revenir sur deux thématiques qui nous semblent toujours d’une grande actualité, à savoir la (re)production des inégalités sociales à l’école et la sélection scolaire. Il s’agira avant tout de se questionner sur la pertinence contemporaine de la sociologie bourdieusienne pour la compréhension des institutions scolaires et des actes pédagogiques à l’école du 21ème siècle.

http://www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch/fr/bourdieu-2010

DOCTORIALES 2010 -

2010-02-26T10:06:00.000+01:00

POUR INFO!!! have a look

Bonjour,

Les Etudes doctorales romandes en sciences de l'éducation en
collaboration avec l'Ecole doctorale Education, Psychologie,
Information, Communication de Lyon vous rappelle la tenue des
Doctoriales 2010 à l'Université de Genève, les 11-12 juin 2010.

Vous trouverez l'annonce du colloque ainsi que l'Appel à
communications à cette adresse :
http://education.cuso.ch/doctoriales-2010/

De la part du comité d'organisation des Doctoriales,
Nathalie Lambiel

Pictures - Lugano, February 2010

2010-02-20T01:25:00.004+01:00

Dear colleagues, you can find some pictures of the last Argupolis course at http://www.flickr.com/photos/argupolis/sets/72157623445850726/

I remember you that it is possible to see pictures of the precedent courses at www.flickr.com/photos/argupolis .

See you soon...

SWISS DOCTORAL SCHOOL on methodologies

2010-02-15T11:25:00.000+01:00

The Swiss Summer School registration has started. The Summer School will take place at the Università della Svizzera italiana (August 20 - September 3, 2010) and is open to all who want to deepen and widen their methodological knowledge and skills in social sciences.

Interested persons should register promptly, as the workshops fill up very quickly.

All the details at http://www.unige.ch/ses/sococ/ss/.

Program - next courses

2010-02-04T15:23:00.001+01:00

Dear all,
please have a look to our website! There are some news about our next courses.
Sara

Argumentation and Education: NEW BOOK

2009-07-28T16:32:00.003+02:00

Argumentation and Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practices

Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly (Eds.)

New York: Springer, 2009, VI, 237 p. 25 illus., HardcoverISBN: 978-0-387-98124-6

During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. Argumentation, as such, requires specific intellectual and social skills. Hence, argumentation will have an increasing importance in education, both because it is a critical competence that has to be learned, and because argumentation can be used to foster learning in philosophy, history, sciences and in many other domains. Argumentation and Education answers these and other questions by providing both theoretical backgrounds, in psychology, education and theory of argumentation, and concrete examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains. It reports on existing innovative practices in education settings at various levels.... more on http://springer.com/978-0-387-98124-6

Table of contents

Introduction, Nathalie Muller Mirza and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Part I. Theoretical Foundations

Argumentation as an Object of Interest and as a Social and Cultural Resource, Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso
Psychosocial Processes in Argumentation, Nathalie Muller Mirza, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Valerie Tartas, and Antonio Iannaccone
Argumentation and Learning, Baruch B. Schwarz
Argumentative Interactions and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Michael Baker
Argumentative Design, Jerry E. B. Andriessen and Baruch B. Schwarz

Part II. Practices

Developing Argumentation: Lessons Learned in the Primary School, Neil Mercer
Argumentation in Higher Education: Examples of Actual Practices with Argumentation Tools, Jerry E. B. Andriessen
The Argumentum Experience, Sara Greco Morasso

Argumentation in context

2009-06-28T14:34:00.002+02:00

The first volume of the series "Argumentation in context" published by John Benjamins has just appeared: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=AIC

Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering

By F. H. van Eemeren and B. Garssen (eds.).

contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if the argumentative discourse is first situated in the communicative and interactional context in which it occurs. While some of the contributions present general views with regard to strategic maneuvering, other contributions report on the results of empirical studies, examine strategic maneuvering in a particular legal or political context, or highlight the presentational design of strategic maneuvering. Examining Argumentation in Context therefore provides an insightful view of recent developments in the research on strategic maneuvering, which is currently prominent in the study of argumentation.

Photos - Lausanne June 2009

2009-06-24T16:51:00.006+02:00

Dear friends, you can find some photos of the last Argupolis course(Lausanne, Crêt-Bérard) at www.flickr.com/photos/argupolis. See you...

New publication - GLOBAL LINGUISTICS

2009-05-11T16:22:00.006+02:00

A new volume on intercultural communication with some interesting insights on argumentation in the delicate context of intercultural relationships:

Danesi, Marcel / Rocci, Andrea

Global Linguistics: An Introduction (2009)

ISBN 978-3-11-021406-2 Series: Mouton Textbook
MOUTON DE GRUYTER
http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?isbn=978-3-11-021406-2

About this Title (from Mouton De Gruyter's website):
The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called “global linguistics” (GL). GL emerges to tackle the ever-growing phenomenon of intercultural communication (IC) in today’s world of international contacts. The specific aim of GL is to look at the form and contents of dialogues among speakers of different cultural backgrounds who will use a “default language” or koiné (usually English) to interact, in order to detect communication breakdowns at various levels of “depth,” as well as the opportunities for developing sound intercultural communication practice. The book includes an accessible presentation of fundamental questions concerning languages and language use. Among the questions addressed are the universal design features of languages, the connection between language and conceptual systems, how people use language to coordinate their actions and interact in a variety of social contexts, and the place of language in a semiotic view of culture. The volume also addresses how language, context and culture shape the way in which we argue a point and try to persuade other people, and why intercultural argumentation is both necessary and risky.Global Linguistics: An Introduction describes fundamental notions in linguistics and cognate fields and is thus well-suited for use as a textbook in courses dealing with IC in general. At the same time, the book is of general interest to scholars in linguistics and communication studies, as it places particular emphasis on theoretical models such as argumentation theory and conceptual metaphor theory, which are generally not presented in textbooks on language and IC.

May 8, 2009: Amsterdam – Lugano Colloquium Argumentation in Context

2009-05-06T18:04:00.001+02:00

09.00: speaker 1 Rigotti & Schulz
09.30: speaker 2 Rocci
10.00: speaker 3 Filimon

10.30: coffee

11.00: speaker 4 Feteris
11.30: speaker 5 Ihnen
12.00: speaker 6 Plug

12.30: lunch

13.30: speaker 7 Pilgram
14.00: speaker 8 Van Poppel

14.30: tea

15.00: speaker 9 Christopher-Guerra
15.30: speaker 10 Palmieri

16.00: tea

Next Argupolis course - June 2009

2009-05-06T14:03:00.005+02:00

It is already online at http://www.argupolis.net/ information about the next Argupolis course in June (Lausanne, Switzerland).

See you...

Photos - Krabbe's course

2009-05-06T13:49:00.009+02:00

Hi everybody...

Now featuring in Lugano...

2009-04-27T11:42:00.004+02:00

...Today at 14 the course "Logic and Formal Dialectic" held by Prof. Erik Krabbe will start in Lugano. PhD students from Lugano (Rudi Palmieri, Sabine Christopher-Guerra, Antonio Bova, Camilla Palmieri, Agatha Filimon, Marcio Monteiro, Gergana Zlatkova, Silvia De Ascaniis), Lausanne (Julien Grand), Amsterdam (Constanza Ihnen, Roosemary Pilgram, Lotte van Poppel) and Neuchâtel (Steve Oswald, Loise Bilat) will participate in the course.

Call for papers - Argumentative processes and communication contexts

2009-04-08T14:02:00.001+02:00

Call for Papers
Studies in Communication Sciences – An International Journal
Thematic Section on:
Argumentative processes and communication contexts

Guest Editors: Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Switzerland

The relevance of the role played by argumentation in shaping the communicative practices occurring in different contexts and activity types is increasingly acknowledged. Argumentation is rooted in the contexts in which it takes place and is significantly determined by them: from social and political institutions to media discourse and journalism, from social and ethical debate to the economic and financial sphere, from health communication to the various domains of interpersonal interactions.
More specifically, argumentation, insofar as it fosters a reasonable management of disagreement and a critical attitude in the solution of conflicts of opinion and of interest, significantly conditions the quality of decision-making and of the building of consent in the communicative activities carried out in these contexts.
A thorough study of argumentative processes in different communication contexts cannot originate but from an interdisciplinary effort connecting the awareness of the proper dynamics of specific communication contexts with theoretical knowledge of the argumentative processes. Consequently, the thematic section of this issue of Studies in Communication Sciences intends to bring together two categories of researchers. The first, dealing with the structure and dynamics of a specific communication context and perceiving the significance of argumentation within this context, aims at adequately defining the role of argumentative processes. The second category, mainly concerned with argumentative strategies, intends to verify how such strategies are molded on and influenced by the communication context to which they are applied.

Article Format and Topics:
Articles in the special issue can have a length of up to 10 pages (2300 characters, with spaces, per page), including abstract, footnotes and references. Contributions can be in English, Italian, French or German. Each author receives 25 free bound reprints of his or her article. The list of possible communication contexts in which argumentative processes can be analyzed includes (but is not limited to):
• Public communication and political discourse
• Communication practices in different mass-media and new-media platforms (newspapers, internet discussions tools, newsgroups, etc.)
• Controversies in scientific communication
• Social debate
• Economic and financial discourse
• Interpersonal communication in different institutional environments (family, school, and others)
• Other significant communication contexts

Key Dates:
• Submission of Articles: August 20th, 2009
• Feedback from Reviewers: October 10th, 2009
• Final Version due: October 31st, 2009
• Publication of the Journal: December 2009

Contact Information:
For questions about the contents, please contact: eddo.rigotti@lu.unisi.ch or sara.greco@lu.unisi.ch
To submit your paper: info@scoms.ch
The Journal’s website (incl. notes for contributors) can be found at: www.scoms.ch

PhD announcement (personal message from your program coordinator...)

2009-03-18T09:15:00.001+01:00

Gentili Signore,Egregi Signori,Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare che:

venerdì 27 marzo 2009 alle ore 10.30 in aula A 24

Sara Greco Morasso difenderà la sua tesi di dottorato dal titolo:

Argumentative and other communicative strategies of the mediation practice.

La giuria sarà composta da:Prof. Eddo Rigotti, Usi (direttore di tesi); Prof. Frans van Eemeren, Università di Amsterdam (membro esterno); Prof. Dr. Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Università di Neuchâtel (membro esterno); Presiede la difesa il Prof. Ivan Snehota.

Abstract

The success mediation is experiencing in several societal domains (Sander 1979; Moffitt and Bordone 2005) is mainly bound to the possibility that this practice offers to find a win-win solution that truly meets the parties’ interests (Princen 1992a; Menkel-Meadow 2005). This possibility is exclusively supported by communicative instruments and, specifically, by means of argumentation. In mediation, in fact, the parties are competent and responsible for the decision on the conflict, while the mediator not only intervenes as a third neutral, but he/she is also not held and not authorized to advance proper standpoints or arguments in favour of a specific outcome (van Eemeren et al. 1993): what he/she is in charge of doing is to stimulate parties to discuss reasonably, to motivate them to find a solution of the conflict, and to keep trace of their zones of agreement. Indeed, what the mediator properly does is helping the parties’ assumption of an argumentative attitude; in fact, in successful mediation, two conflicting individuals, entrenched in an escalating spiral of hostility, become co-arguers, able to tackle their differences of opinion by means of reasonable discussion.A relevant question becomes, thus, understanding how mediators can help and foster such a radical change in the parties’ attitude and how this actually contributes to the happy fulfilment of the mediation goal, namely to the resolution of the conflict.In order to answer this question, the present dissertation has been organized along two main research focuses.First, a comprehensive ontological framework of mediation conceived of as an interaction scheme (Rigotti and Rocci 2006) has been reconstructed. This framework allows considering all relevant factors and their relations in the context of the mediation script from its origin, namely some form of conflict (Yarn 1999), to its short-term and long-term outcomes. Its elicitation has required a conceptual analysis of mediation based on a reasoned interdisciplinary synthesis of different scientific approaches (see among others Wall, Stark and Standifer 2001; Herrman, Hollett and Gale 2006).Second, using this framework as a term of comparison, an argumentative analysis of mediation has been proposed, based on empirical evidence of a corpus of successful cases. The analysis shows how mediation encompasses a macro-text of argumentative discussions that allows the fulfilment of the pragmatic goal of conflict resolution. The mediator’s argumentative activity emerges, in particular, in relation to a wise management of the topical potential (van Eemeren and Houtlosser 2002). Mediators have a determinant influence in setting up the parties’ discussion, in particular in relation to the creation of an “argumentative space” based on a sound confrontation stage and to the analysis of the parties’ conflict and of the relationships it jeopardizes (in the opening stage). As the discussion proceeds, parties progressively manage it themselves, by assuming an argumentative attitude.A key to explain the parties’ change is constituted by the consideration of their interests. Some moves allowing to evoke interests, like presupposition accommodation (Greco 2003; Cigada 2008), have emerged in the analysis. In this way, the present research explains how, through argumentative means, mediators manage to focus on interests rather than on the parties’ claimed positions (Fisher, Ury and Patton 1991), not rarely discovering that these interests are not incompatible but even mutually inclusive.These outcomes represent actual advances in the theoretical understanding of mediation and in the investigation of the role played in this practice by argumentative processes. They also provide a basis to design aware conflict resolution interventions.

Seminar / Conference – Prof. Jan Renkema

2009-03-09T14:33:00.019+01:00

Prof. Jan Renkema will be at USI to visit ILS (Institute of Linguistics and Semiotics) and will give a 6-hour seminar on his last book "The texture of discourse. Towards an outline of connectivity theory" (forthcoming, John Benjamins).

Even though this seminar offered by ILS is not part of Argupolis Program, all Argupolis and other PhD students are invited to attend it. To participate, please contact Prof. Andrea Rocci.

Seminar program:
Monday, 16 March – 3.30-5.30 pm – Room A24 – The Connectivity Model
Tuesday, 17 March – 3.30-5.30 pm – Room A24 – The interpretation of discourse relations
Monday, 23 March – 3.30-5.30 pm – Room A24 – Starting the analysis

Besides this seminar, Prof. Renkema will give the conference "Improving the Quality of Governmental Documents: A Combined Academic and Professional Approach".
Wednesday 18 March – 1:30 pm – room A31.

Krabbe's course details are online

2009-02-13T13:20:00.002+01:00

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

Erik Krabbe's course (Logic and Formal Dialectic) description is online on www.argupolis.net. The description also includes the pre-readings indications

Publications - announcement

2009-02-12T15:25:00.004+01:00

Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University) suggested us some relevant readings:

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CVS%206

http://www.springer.com/philosophy/history+of+philosophy/book/978-1-4020-8190-3

http://www.springer.com/philosophy/history+of+philosophy/book/978-1-4020-8667-0

Recently, an international colloquium was held at the University of Tel Aviv, where the two volumes on Leibniz were presented and discussed.

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

2009-02-02T14:25:00.002+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

From June 29 to July 2, 2010, the 7th Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at the University of Amsterdam. The aim of the conference is to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory.

The keynote speakers are:

Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

James Klumpp (University of Maryland)

James Freeman (Hunter College, City University of New York).

The planning committee of the 7th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original,

non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part.

Anyone who wishes to present a paper can submit an abstract in English to the planning committee by sending an e-mail attachment to issa-fgw@uva.nl. Abstracts (ca. 250 words), prepared for blind refereeing, must be submitted in Word no later than November 1, 2009. All abstracts should be accompanied by a separate file in which the author indicates his/her research interests and provides a list of key publications on argumentation. Please include your surname and "issa abstract" in the subject entry of your e-mail message.

Among the conference themes are:

Argument schemes

Argumentation structures

Fallacies

Theoretical issues

Argumentative strategies

Argumentation and stylistics

Ethos and pathos in argumentation

Analysis of controversies

Argumentation in debate

Persuasion research

Interpersonal argumentation

Visual argumentation

Religious argumentation

Argumentation and epistemology

Argumentation in the media

Argumentation in a medical context

Argumentation in a legal context

Argumentation in a political context

Further information on the 7th ISSA Conference is available at: http://www.hum.uva.nl/issa. The address of the planning committee is: Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam, Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, email: issa-fgw@uva.nl.

Some pictures...

2009-01-29T15:01:00.022+01:00

THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM ARGUPOLIS HAS BEEN INAUGURATED

2009-01-28T12:15:00.011+01:00

The inauguration module of the doctoral program Argupolis (http://www.argupolis.net/) has been held in Lugano from January 8 to 20, 2009. More than 20 PhD students from Switzerland, from the Netherlands and from other countries have taken part in the courses and in the interdisciplinary dialogue on argumentation in context.

Four courses were part of this inauguration module: “Context, dialogue and cognition” held by Michèle Grossen (University of Lausanne); “Argumentation as a situated practice” held by NathalieMuller-Mirza (University of Lausanne); the first part of “Fundamentals of argumentation theory” taught by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam); and “Instruments of semantic analysis” by Eddo Rigotti and Andrea Rocci (Università della Svizzera italiana). PhD students participated in cross-tutoring and discussions.

On the first day, the Argupolis doctoral program was opened by a welcome speech by the President of the Università della Svizzera italiana, Piero Martinoli.

The courses were held in Lugano at the Hotel Colorado.

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Colloque: Sélection scolaire et inégalités sociales: Bourdieu et l'école du 21ème siècle

DOCTORIALES 2010 -

Pictures - Lugano, February 2010

SWISS DOCTORAL SCHOOL on methodologies

Program - next courses

Argumentation and Education: NEW BOOK

Argumentation in context

Photos - Lausanne June 2009

New publication - GLOBAL LINGUISTICS

May 8, 2009: Amsterdam – Lugano Colloquium Argumentation in Context

Next Argupolis course - June 2009

Photos - Krabbe's course

Now featuring in Lugano...

Call for papers - Argumentative processes and communication contexts

PhD announcement (personal message from your program coordinator...)

Seminar / Conference – Prof. Jan Renkema

Krabbe's course details are online

Publications - announcement

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

Some pictures...

THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM ARGUPOLIS HAS BEEN INAUGURATED

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