Search results for "argument"

Student evaluations of the credibility and argumentation of online sources

2021

This study investigated upper secondary school students’ skills in evaluating the credibility and argumentative content of a blog text and a YouTube video. Both sources concerned child vaccination, the blog text opposing and the YouTube video supporting it. Students rated each source as credible, fairly credible or non-credible, justified their ratings, and analyzed the argumentation of both sources. Their justifications were analyzed for trustworthiness and expertise and their argument analyses for identification of the main position of the source and the reasons supporting it. Students’ justification skills proved fairly weak, and they also struggled with recognizing unbalanced argumentat…

Religious Education in Finland: Promoting Intelligent Belief?

2000

This article discusses current dilemmas in religious education in Finland. Different interpretations of confessional religious education are presented in the context of the Lutheran tradition. Pedagogical applications of religious education advocated by Michael Grimmitt are explored as plausible approaches in promoting the religious understanding of students. The article presents some suggestions to enrich Grimmitt's pedagogy with a more argumentative approach, which unites both reason and feeling. Such an intelligent approach is arguably in accord with the pedagogical interpretation of confessional religious education.

Mangelfull opplæring i grunnleggende skriveferdigheter

2017

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4.klases skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju pilnveidi krievu valodas stundäs

2021

Diplomdarba “4. klases skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju pilnveide krievu valodas stundās” mērķis ir izpētīt didaktiskās iespējas argumentācijas prasmju pilnveidošanā 4. klases skolēniem, ņemot vērā mūsdienu lingvodidaktikā uzkrāto pieredzi un skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju reālo līmeni. Pētījuma aktualitāti nosaka, ka argumentācijas prasmes ir būtiska cilvēka komunikatīvās kompetences un kultūras daļa. Pētījumā iegūtie dati ļāva noformulēt galvenās problēmas skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju attīstīšanā; izzināt skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju līmeni, kāda veida grūtības novēro šajā jomā un ar kāda veida metodēm un paņemieniem skolotāja mēģina novērst nepilnības skolēnu argumentācijas prasmju pil…

Are Humans Poor at Arguing? From the ‘Argumentative Theory of Reasoning’ back to a Rhetorical Theory of Argumentation

2018

Starting from Sperber and Mercier’s theory (2011) on the relationship between reasoning and arguing, we will try to rethink the link between rhetoric and argumentation. Using Aristotelian rhetoric as a theoretical framework, we will focus on two related features: 1) the nature and the role of argumentation inferences in classical models of rhetoric; 2) the role of normativity in assessing a naturalistic description of what we make when we argue.

Antiamericanismo

2002

Institutional Autonomy and the Attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area – Facts or Tokenistic Discourse?

2012

In the discourse of the Bologna Process, the notion of competitiveness as the focal goal of Bologna Process, and university autonomy as one of its founding principles are consistently linked. Autonomy is framed as a precondition of competitiveness, while competitiveness is framed in terms of attractiveness of European higher education and higher education institutions. This paper examines their relationship, discussing whether there is ground for the repeated policy argument of their going hand in hand. Do the more attractive countries have higher autonomy, are the countries with higher autonomy more attractive? Or are these phenomena linked only in the simplified arguments of the policy di…

Cuerpos y mutaciones en el cine de ciencia-ficción durante los años cincuenta

1994

El cine de ciencia-ficción de los años cincuenta nos ofrece un testimonio ejemplar por su candidez de hasta dónde el patrón humano rige sin apenas deslices toda suerte de metamorfosis. La misma situación del género es en extremo curiosa: lejos de la imaginería gótica y romántica que alimentó las producciones Universal, también se distancia de las afecciones víricas, las prótesis teratológicas y la robótica de cuño informático que asaltan el cuerpo haciéndolo estallar en el moderno cine de terror.

Conditions of a Philosophical Discussion

2020

As its method, philosophy uses argumentative discussion. Philosophy does not often appeal directly to observations or experiences, although they have a place in argumentation as well. Because philosophy is discursive, it delves in the realms of language and the use of language. Defining concepts is a central theme. The rules and argumentation principles of rational discussion are another cornerstone of philosophy. I defend two things that are seen to be conflicting: philosophical relativity and common core rationality. Both are necessary in order to balance each other out. I argue that a certain intuitive and common conception of truth and reality is necessary in order to conduct philosophi…

The Dignity in Free Speech: Civility Norms in Post-Terror Societies

2016

ABSTRACTIt is difficult to strike a balance between protecting freedom of speech and ensuring public safety. The attacks on 22 July 2011 in Norway, and the fear of terrorist acts inspired by public utterances on the Internet, have caused many to question whether and how we should regulate hate speech. In this article, we analyse the main arguments from the debate on freedom of speech in post-terror Norway, termed the ‘liberal’ and ‘harm’ (or ‘balance of harms’) arguments respectively. We propose a set of civility norms that may serve to uphold the wide freedom of speech advocated by the liberal argument, while being attentive to the real ethical challenges emphasised by the harm argument.