<p>The study catered for empirical and metaphysical dimensions of science and IKS. The study employed a quasi-experimental design as well as a qualitative research design. Two cohorts of students from a fictitiously named &ldquo / Culture Secondary School&rdquo / have been used in this study. The list of instruments for data collection were as follows: Conceptions of Fermentation (COF) questionnaire which was used to elicit learners&rsquo / pre- and post-test conceptions of fermentation with special reference to traditional beer or &ldquo / Umqombothi&rdquo / , an Attitudes to Science (ATS) questionnaire which was used to find out the learners&rsquo / worldviews, a Science Achievement Test (SAT) which was used to assess the learners&rsquo / generalised knowledge of fermentation, a classroom observation schedule as well as a focus group interview schedule to gather additional qualitative data. All the instruments were in English with all technical and difficult terms in both English and isiXhosa (the learners&rsquo / home language). Both groups were exposed to Science/IKS-based lessons. The only difference between the two groups was that, the experimental group (E group) was exposed to a Dialogical Argumentation Teaching Model (DAIM) and the comparison group (C group) to a traditional teaching approach. The data gatherred were both analyzed in terms of qualitative and quantitative descriptions.</p>

This study was based on the Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Project (SIKSP) at the School of Science and Mathematics Education, University of the Western Cape. The project seeks to enhance educators’ understanding of and ability to implement a Science-IKS curriculum (Ogunniyi, 2007) through using the theoretical framework of argumentation (Toulmin Argument Pattern) to the extent that learners would value the significance of both worldviews. This study sought to find the effects of an Argumentation-Based Instruction on grade 10 learners’ understanding of the causes of pollution at a river site. Since the integration of Science and IKS are envisaged by Curriculum 2005 (C2005), two theoretical argumentation constructs have been used namely, Toulmin’s (1958) Argumentation Pattern (TAP) and Ogunniyi’s (1995) Contiguity Argumentation Theory (CAT).

Magister Educationis - MEd (Mathematics and Science Education) / The study catered for empirical and metaphysical dimensions of science and IKS. The study employed a quasi-experimental design as well as a qualitative research design. Two cohorts of students from a fictitiously named Culture Secondary School have been used in this study. The list of instruments for data collection were as follows: Conceptions of Fermentation (COF) questionnaire which was used to elicit learnerss pre- and post-test conceptions of fermentation with special reference to traditional beer or Umqombothi an Attitudes to Science (ATS) questionnaire which was used to find out the learners' worldviews, a Science Achievement Test (SAT) which was used to assess the learners' generalised knowledge of fermentation, a classroom observation schedule as well as a focus group interview schedule to gather additional qualitative data. All the instruments were in English with all technical and difficult terms in both English and isiXhosa (the learners&rsquo; home language). Both groups were exposed to Science/IKS-based lessons. The only difference between the two groups was that, the experimental group (E group) was exposed to a Dialogical Argumentation Teaching Model (DAIM) and the comparison group (C group) to a traditional teaching approach. The data gathered were both analyzed in terms of qualitative and quantitative descriptions. / South Africa

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit gewinnt deutlich an gesellschaftlicher und politischer Relevanz. Evidente naturwissenschaftliche und geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungen belegen die Notwendigkeit zum Handeln, Umsteuern und sofortigen Veränderungen. Dennoch ist Nachhaltigkeit fortlaufend mit Vorbehalten, Widerständen und Einwänden unterschiedlicher Art und Ausmaßes begleitet. Neben der hohen Kunst der Rhetorik kommt immer wieder Kampfrhetorik zur Anwendung, um evidente Forschungsergebnisse und belegbare Fakten auszuhebeln. Anhand der verschiedenen Themen der Nachhaltigkeit wird herausgearbeitet, wie für eine Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit argumentiert und souverän mit Einwänden umgegangen werden kann. Dabei folgt die hohe Kunst der Kommunikation dem Prinzip Argumentation – Erwiderung – Erwiderung der Erwiderung. Es geht darum, auf selektiv gewählte, jedoch häufige Einwände so souverän wie möglich zu reagieren, gekonnt zu kontern und damit Nachhaltigkeit in der Argumentation stark zu machen. Diese Zusammenstellung bietet einen kompakten rhetorischen Leitfaden im Kontext der Entwicklung zur Nachhaltigkeit. / The topic of sustainability is clearly gaining social and political relevance. Evidence from the natural sciences and humanities demonstrates the need for action, change and immediate transformation. Nevertheless, sustainability is continuously accompanied by reservations, resistance and objections of various kinds and degrees. Battle rhetoric is repeatedly used to undermine evidenced research results and provable facts. Based on the various topics of sustainability, the paper shows how to argue for a transformation towards sustainability and how to confidently deal with objections. In doing so, the fine art of communication follows the principle of argumentation - reply - reply to the reply. The aim is to respond and counter to selectively chosen, but common objections as confidently as possible, and thus, to make sustainability strong in reasoning. This compilation offers a compact rhetorical guide in the context of the development towards sustainability.

In Zusammenhang mit der Einführung des Pflegeversicherungsgesetzes stellt die Arbeit die stationäre Altenpflege in Deutschland besonders dar. Im analytischen Rahmen der Arbeit wird der klassischen sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterteilung: Makro-Meso-Mikro eine zusätzliche Meta-Ebene hinzugefügt, welche den epistemologischen Hintergrund umfasst. Mit Hilfe des Modells der narrierenden Organisation kann so gezeigt werden, wie - am Beispiel der stationären Altenpflege - narrative Sinnstiftung in Organisationen abläuft. Dabei liegt ein Fokus darauf, was vom Außerorganisationalen des analytischen Rahmens in den sechs verschiedenen Fällen zur Sinnstiftung beiträgt. Nach einer sehr umfassenden qualitativen Auseinandersetzung schließt die Arbeit mit einem allgemeinen Modell, welches als Vorschlag zur Erforschung von Organisationen gesehen werden kann.

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the content and communicative strategies in texts used in a project on tobacco policy delegated by the Swedish government to the National Institute of Public Health (“The National Tobacco Assignment 2008–2010”). The study uses communicative strategies as an umbrella term for the way the texts fulfil the political assignment through adaptation to suit different receivers in a discursive practice with set guidelines for communication between experts and users, and how these strategies are visible in the studied texts. The material consists of six guides for care personnel and ten brochures for smokers. The study is a text-focused critical discourse analysis combining methodological tools from different linguistic traditions. These are chiefly taken from critical text linguistics, new rhetoric, and sociosemiotics. The main question posed in the study is how the public authority’s assignment to influence people through the texts is combined with ideas about smokers’ empowerment. The investigation problematizes how the content and form of the texts relates to the authority’s assignment to exert influence, and to motivational interviewing as a discursive practice with an empowerment perspective on lifestyle changes. The analyses show that controlling ideas and notions about smokers’ empowerment exist in parallel in the government texts about smoking cessation. Controlling elements are most prominent in the sections of the guides about groups who, in the encounter with care personnel, do not show any interest or desire to quit smoking. In the studied brochures the controlling elements are most prominent in those aimed at operation ­patients, adolescents, and parents-to-be. Both groups of material – the guides and the brochures – nevertheless give the impression of being designed to be compatible with a patient-cent­red discursive practice. This is noticeable, for example, in the occurrence of associative and dissociative argumentation strategies which legitimize or tone down controlling elements.

Cette thèse propose un discours théorique sur la médiation fictionnelle, notamment dans les romans de notre corpus. Dans une perspective rhétorique, la recherche consiste à étudier le processus de mise en œuvre de la signification dans les œuvres littéraires. La communication y apparaît non pas comme une donnée stable et simple que l’on pourrait réduire à des manifestations formelles ou encore à des contenus sociohistoriques, mais comme un ensemble d’exigences cohérent qui définissent les termes, sinon les modalités d’une coopération entre l’écrivain et le lecteur. La réflexion s’organise en trois parties.La première partie consiste à identifier la question dont l’énoncé romanesque est la réponse. Elle permet d’arborer, sous forme de thème, les grands axes de l’argumentation narrative, partant les enjeux de la communication dans chaque roman.Dans la seconde partie, il s’agit d’analyser les choix formels de l’énoncé et de montrer sur quels modes et à quelle fin idéologique la contribution du lecteur est sollicitée. En fait, c’est la stratégie discursive qui définit la modalité de communication et caractérise le régime de fonctionnement de la médiation dans une œuvre littéraire.L’idée centrale de la troisième partie consiste à montrer la compétence épistémologique qu’un écrivain confère à l’œuvre littéraire et la capacité du lecteur à l’identifier. Les théories qui deviennent des viviers épistémologiques de la littérature apparaissent comme des réductionnismes et de véritables obstacles au plaisir de lire ou de faire résonner avec justesse la signification d’une œuvre d’art. / This thesis proposes a theorical discourse on the fictional mediation, more particularly in the novels of our corpus. From a rhetorical perspective, the research consists in studying the process of implementation of the signification in the literary works. The communication appears to it not as a stable and simple datum which we could reduce to formal appearances or still to sociohistorical contents, but as a set of coherent requirements wich specify the terms, otherwise the modalities of the argumentative cooperation between the writer and the reader. The thiking is composed of three parts.The first part consists in indentifiying the question of wich the fiction statement is the answer. It allows to raise, in thematic form, the main axes of the narrative line of argument, consequently the issues of the communication in each novel.The second part deals with the analysis of the formal choices of the statement and it shows on which modes and what ideological end the contribution of the reader is requested. In fact, it’s the discursive strategy wich defines the method of communication and characterizes the functioning of mediation in a literary work.The central idea of the third part is to show the epistemological skill that a writer gives to the literary work and the reader’s ability to identify it. The theories wich become epistemological pools appear as reductionisms and as real obstacles to the pleasure to read or to make pertinently resound the significance of a work art.

Ce travail questionne dans quelle mesure et par quels processus la nécessité dans laquelle sont les acteurs s’opposant à un projet d’aménagement de devoir argumenter leur refus peut participer incidemment à la diffusion de valeurs, de croyances et de principes caractéristiques du militantisme environnementaliste. Poursuivant une ligne d’analyse simmelienne, cette thèse rapproche les dimensions interactionnistes et cognitives des conflits d’aménagement pour saisir comment les propriétés de l’argumentation et de l’engagement de groupe peuvent progressivement conduire des acteurs initialement engagés à s’opposer à un projet d’aménagement en raison de motivations personnelles à assumer et à promouvoir des contenus environnementalistes, défendus pour eux-mêmes et au delà du conflit d’aménagement initial. Nous proposons un modèle analytique du rôle de l’argumentation dans le développement du militantisme environnementaliste dans la situation où des individus forment un groupe pour s’opposer à un projet d’aménagement sur la base d’un argumentaire commun. Ce modèle est forgé à partir du versant simmelien des travaux de Bernard Groethuysen et Mikhaïl Bakhtine. Le cadre empirique de cette étude est celui des conflits nés de l’aménagement d’une centrale hydroélectrique à Saint-Chamas (Bouches-du-Rhône) qui fait de l’étang de Berre le point de chute d’une des plus importantes chaînes hydroélectriques de France. Lors de ces conflits, la progression de l’argumentation et les interactions qui l’accompagnent rendent possible l’extension de la mobilisation à des thématiques environnementales diverses et à la défense de nouveaux écosystèmes. / This work questions how far and by what processes the constraint made to the social actors who are opposing an industrial or urban development project to argue their refusal can incidentally contribute to the dissemination of the values, beliefs and principals of the environmentalist activism. Following a simmelian analysis perspective, this work makes converge the interactionist and cognitive dimensions of the planning conflicts. By this way we aim to understand how the properties of arguments and group commitments may gradually lead actors initially engaged to oppose a development project due to personal reasons to assume and promote environmentalist contents defended for themselves and beyond the initial development conflict. We propose an analytical model of the role of argumentation in the development of environmentalist activism when individuals decide to constitute a group in order to oppose a development project by means of a common argumentation. This model is made from the simmelian aspects of the works of Bernard Groethuysen and Mikhail Bakhtin.The field study of this work is consituted by the conflicts arising from the construction of a hydroelectric power station at Saint-Chamas (Bouches-du-Rhône) which converted the Berre lagoon into the point fall of one of the leading french hydroelectric chains. During these conflicts, the progression of argumentation and the interactions involved in the argument process allow the expansion of the mobilization to various environmental issues and the defense of new ecosystems.

En créant le terme «néoconstitutionnalisme», certains théoriciens du droit ont voulu désigner un nouvel ensemble de doctrines en matière d'interprétation et de protection des droits constitutionnels fondamentaux. Ce néoconstitutionnalisme consiste avant tout en une théorie de la spécificité de l'interprétation constitutionnelle, de la pondération lors des conflits entre principes juridiques et de l'inclusion de valeurs morales dans le droit positif des démocraties constitutionnelles. Il serait une nouvelle famille de conceptions du droit. Les juges des cours constitutionnelles et des cours suprêmes devraient désormais laisser place au raisonnement moral en raison de nouveaux contenus du droit. Ces enjeux permettraient de fabriquer une nouvelle démocratie cohérente avec les principes des nouveaux États constitutionnels. L'objet de cette étude est d'analyser les jurisprudences et les doctrines en matière de droits fondamentaux, en en dévoilant les opérations pratiques et les présupposés idéologiques. Elle s'intéresse aux récentes transitions constitutionnelles (Afrique du Sud, Afghanistan, Cambodge, Timor Oriental, Europe de l'Est, Amérique latine, etc.) comme au phénomène d'une plus large protection du principe de dignité humaine (Allemagne, États-Unis, Canada, Inde, Israël, Cour européenne, Cour interaméricaine, etc.) et de droits sociaux (Colombie, etc.), en mettant au jour les nouveautés en matière de techniques interprétatives et de défis pour la théorie du droit. / The term «neoconstitutionalism» was coined by legal theorists to refer to a new set of both, theories of interpretation and of protection of fundamental rights. Neoconstitutionalism is a theory dealing primarily with specificities of constitutional interpretation, balancing between conflicting legal principles, and the inclusion of moral values in positive law in constitutional democracies. It posits new ways of understanding law. According to neoconstitutionalism, judges of Constitutional and Supreme Courts should place great importance on moral reasoning due to the emergence of new contents in law. This would enable the creation of a new democratic system consistent with the principles of new constitutional States. This study seeks to expose the practical implications and ideological presuppositions of case-law and doctrinal discourses related to fundamental rights. It examines recent constitutional transitions (in South Africa, Afghanistan, Cambodia, East Timor, Eastern Europe, Latin America, etc.) as well as the broader phenomenon of increasing protection of human dignity (Germany, United States, Canada, India, Israel, European Court, Inter-American Court, etc.) and social rights (Colombia, etc.). In doing so, it highlights the new interpretative techniques and the new challenges faced by legal theory. / Creando la parola «neocostituzionalismo», alcuni teorici del diritto hanno voluto designare un nuovo insieme di dottrine in materia di interpretazione e di protezione dei diritti costituzionali fondamentali. Il neocostituzionalismo consiste innanzitutto in una teoria della specificità dell'interpretazione costituzionale, della ponderazione nei conflitti tra principi giuridici e dell'inclusione dai valori morali nel diritto positivo delle democrazie costituzionali. Sarebbe una nuova famiglia di concezioni del diritto. I giudici delle corti costituzionali e supreme dovrebbero ora impegnarsi nel ragionamento morale in ragione dei nuovi contenuti del diritto. Questa sfida darebbe la possibilità di costruire una nuova democrazia coerente con i principi dei nuovi Stati costituzionali. Lo studio analizza giurisprudenza e dottrina in materia di diritti fondamentali, svelandone le operazioni pratiche e i presupposti ideologici. Considera le recenti transizioni costituzionali (Africa del Sud, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Timor Orientale, Europa dell'Este, America latina, ecc.), il diffuso fenomeno della più ampia protezione del principio di dignità personale (Germania, Stati Uniti, Canada, India, Israele, Corte europea, Corte interamericana, ecc.) e dei diritti sociali (Colombia, ecc.), mettendo in luce le novità in materia di techniche interpretrative e le sfide poste alla teoria del diritto.

Cette thèse a pour objet d’étudier les compétences discursives chez les étudiants nigérians de 3e année de FLE et l’influence des modes de discours culturels dans leurs productions de textes argumentatifs. Nous avons également étudié les représentations des enseignants sur les écrits des étudiants ainsi que leurs pratiques d’évaluation. Pour cela, nous avons présenté le contexte sociolinguistique de notre public, la politique linguistique du Nigeria ainsi que la place des langues nationales et étrangères dans le pays. Nous avons étudié les copies des étudiants à l’aide de la méthodologie issue des études de la linguistique textuelle et des écrits plurilingues. L'enquête de terrain s'est déroulée au Village Français du Nigeria (VFN) à Badagry. Nous l'avons organisée en trois étapes en nous appuyant sur le questionnaire et l'entretien exploratoire (destinés aux élèves et aux enseignants de français) et sur l’observation non participante. Les principaux résultats ont démontré une forte influence des ressources plurilingues et culturelles dans les productions écrites des étudiants. Or les enseignants ne tiennent pas compte des compétences plurilingues des étudiants dans leurs évaluations des copies mais se concentrent plutôt sur les aspects linguistiques et les fautes grammaticales. Partant de ces constants, nous avons jugé nécessaire de proposer une grille d’évaluation ainsi qu’une séquence didactique qui portent sur les notions d’argumentation et les composantes textuelles à travers des textes divers. Ces exemples pourraient être utiles pour les enseignants et les étudiants dans leur apprentissage. / The aim of this thesis is to study the role of the multilingual competence of third year undergraduate students of French as a foreign language in Nigeria. We also studied the teachers’ perceptions of the students’ essays as well as their assessment practices. To achieve this, we presented the sociolinguistic context of the students, the language policy of Nigeria as well as the place of national and foreign languages in the country. We studied the students’ scripts using textual linguistic and multilingual writing methodologies.The field work took place at the Nigerian French Language Village at Badagry. It was organised in three stages using questionnaires and exploratory interviews with the students and the teachers, and non-participatory observation in the classroom. The main results showed that the students have their perceptions of argumentative writing and multilingual competence. The teachers do not take into account the multilingual competences of the students but focus instead on linguistic content and errors in the scripts. We also observed that the teaching of argumentative writing remains at the theoretical level and unrelated to the students’ experiences and context. Following these observations, we deemed it necessary to propose an assessment grid and a didactic sequence on teaching argumentative essays and its textual features using different text genres. These examples could be useful for both students and teachers.