This is most effectively accomplished through meaningful,
constructive discourse which takes into account the opinions of all women, including those who disagree with parts, or all, of the feminist movement.
The norm here is to reserve «Your Dot» posts for non-anonymous contributors — one of my experiments in trying to
foster constructive discourse through positive reinforcement of good behavior.
For mathematics teacher educators, much can be gleaned from existing research regarding strategies that have been shown effective in
promoting constructive discourse with mathematics students.
Given that a prime goal here is to create what the Harvard Internet analyst David Weinberger calls a «smart room» — a place
for constructive discourse — I'm elevating McIntyre's comment to «Your Dot» status: Read more...
We can either join the chorus of unhelpful sound bites seeking to «win,» or we can
model constructive discourse that places relationship ahead of political agenda.
To help improve communications between supporters and football clubs, UEFA introduced a licensing requirement in the 2012/13 season for all clubs across Europe to appoint a Supporter Liaison Officer to ensure proper and
constructive discourse between them and their fans.
Any notion that Watts is interested in fostering an atmosphere of civility and
constructive discourse evaporates pretty quickly in considering how he handled his questions about that paper.
(The goal is to foster
constructive discourse by occasionally bringing to the fore particularly well stated non-anonymous comments.)
That said, I do think there may be a way to offer carrots that might foster a
more constructive discourse and less of a constant, soulless and enervating debate.
Then there are sites like Dot Earth, which is sometimes more like a «discomfort zone» — dealing with disquieting realities behind substantial global challenges and trying (not always successfully) to
foster constructive discourse on tough questions.
Given that a prime goal here is to create what the Harvard Internet analyst David Weinberger calls a «smart room» — a place
for constructive discourse — I'm elevating McIntyre's comment to «Your Dot» status:
In the meantime, the rest of us will continue to do what we're doing, be it making money, having
constructive discourses, or being authors.
Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote
a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self - determination with the broader public sphere.
But there is a ripe opportunity to try new approaches to
constructive discourse and problem solving, with the first step being an acceptance of our humanness, for better and worse.
My goal under my academic hat is to start building an online learning environment, for lack of a better phrase, aimed at fostering reasoned,
constructive discourse to shape and share ideas that can potentially smooth the human journey over the next few decades.
I tend to agree that Nisbet's approach was almost guaranteed to result, at least initially, in tactical debates more than
constructive discourse.
There are plenty of persistent challenges, including managing reader comments in ways that foster
constructive discourse and minimize interminable spats.
Comment note In the Monty Python spirit of making Dot Earth a better room for an argument, I'm going to spend more time sifting for — and, when necessary, rejecting — comments that are off topic, uncivil, incoherent, repetitive or otherwise not contributing to
constructive discourse.