Argomentare per superare il conflitto: l'argomentazione nella mediazione

This paper sets out to analyze the role that argumentation may play in dispute resolution, in particular within the practice of dispute mediation. The focus is on the complex interplay of different argumentative discussions which are necessary for the parties to personally handle and possibly solve their conflict. This contribution focuses in particular on the mediator's role in a well-conducted mediation, considering how he introduces the disputants into the practice of argumentation by setting up a space for an argumentative discussion. In this relation, the mediator's strategic maneuvering with the topical potential emerges as particularly significant in mediation. The analysis presented here is based on an empirical corpus of successful mediation cases including different applications of mediation to interpersonal conflicts

The ontology of conflict

This paper aims at clarifying the ontology of conflict as a preliminary for constructing a conflict mapping guide (Wehr 1979). After recalling the main definitions elaborated in different disciplines, the meaning of conflict is elicited through semantic analysis based on corpus evidence. Two fundamental meanings emerge: conflict as an interpersonal hostility between two or more human subjects, and conflict as a propositional incompatibility. These two states of affairs are significantly related, because the latter tends to generate the former whenever the incompatible positions are embodied by as many parties who feel personally questioned. The semantic analysis allows sketching the ontology of the conflictual situation that can serve to generate a conflict mapping guide, and facing several crucial aspects that are relevant both to the study and to the management of conflicts. In the former perspective, it allows the comparison of the situation of interpersonal conflict with the seemingly similar process of controversy

Innovación pedagógica para el aprendizaje de la Administración en la Facultad de Cs. Económicas y Sociales de la UNMDP. Prácticas pre profesionales en organizaciones de la sociedad civil y de la economía solidaria

Desde el año 2005 se implementaron en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la UNMDP, Prácticas Profesionales Comunitarias como requisito curricular obligatorio de sus Planes de Estudios; con 30 hs. de intervención por cada estudiante acompañadas por un Seminario de conceptualización y su correspondiente evaluación. Su implementación es regida por la OCA Nº 1211/09. Desde el año 2008, han recorrido el Seminario y realizado la Práctica más de 300 estudiantes que se han involucrado con cerca de 373 instituciones (ONG, Cooperativas, Sociedades de Fomento, entre otros) concretando al menos 27.570 horas de Prácticas con destacados resultados, no solo en la dimensión del aprendizaje sino también en la intervención comunitaria. En esta oportunidad analizaremos las conclusiones de los estudiantes, en particular de la Lic. en Administración, a la luz de las modificaciones metodológicas que se realizaron en el programa del Seminario durante el período 2013-2014.Fil: Huergo, María Consuelo. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Morasso, M. C. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina

Experiencias de aprendizaje-servicio en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, UNMDP

El presente trabajo surge de la sistematización de vivencias de los estudiantes que atravesaron el Seminario de Prácticas Profesionales Comunitarias, de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la UNMDP, durante los años 2010 y 2011. El mismo busca recuperar las vivencias, los saberes, y los aprendizajes de los estudiantes en el transcurso de la práctica junto a organizaciones de la sociedad civil, que permitan identificar aspectos puestos en juego en las intervenciones y, al mismo tiempo, poder evaluar sus impactos.Fil: Huergo, María Consuelo. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Morasso, María Celeste. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina

Comparing the Argumentum Model of Topics to Other Contemporary Approaches to Argument Schemes: The Procedural and Material Components

This paper focuses on the inferential configuration of arguments, generally referred to as argument scheme. After outlining our approach, denominated Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT, see Rigotti and Greco Morasso 2006, 2009; Rigotti 2006, 2008, 2009), we compare it to other modern and contemporary approaches, to eventually illustrate some advantages offered by it. In spite of the evident connection with the tradition of topics, emerging also from AMT's denomination, its involvement in the contemporary dialogue on argument schemes should not be overlooked. The model builds in particular on the theoretical and methodological perspective of pragma-dialectics in its extended version, reconciling dialectic and rhetoric; nevertheless, it also takes into account numerous other contributions to the study of argument schemes. Aiming at a representation of argument schemes able to monitor the inferential cohesion and completeness of arguments, AMT focuses on two components of argument scheme that could be distinguished, readapting pragma-dialectical terms, as procedural and material respectively. The procedural component is based on the semantic-ontological structure, which generates the inferential connection from which the logical form of the argument is derived. The material component integrates into the argument scheme the implicit and explicit premises bound to the contextual common ground (Rigotti 2006). In this paper, the comparison of the AMT to other approaches focuses on the inferential configuration of arguments and not on the typologies of argument schemes and on the principles they are based on, which the authors intend to tackle in a further pape

Dynamic Determinants of the Uncontrolled Manifold during Human Quiet Stance

Human postural sway during stance arises from coordinated multi-joint movements. Thus, a sway trajectory represented by a time-varying postural vector in the multiple-joint-angle-space tends to be constrained to a low-dimensional subspace. It has been proposed that the subspace corresponds to a manifold defined by a kinematic constraint, such that the position of the center of mass (CoM) of the whole body is constant in time, referred to as the kinematic uncontrolled manifold (kinematic-UCM). A control strategy related to this hypothesis (CoM-control-strategy) claims that the central nervous system (CNS) aims to keep the posture close to the kinematic-UCM using a continuous feedback controller, leading to sway patterns that mostly occur within the kinematic-UCM, where no corrective control is exerted. An alternative strategy proposed by the authors (intermittent control-strategy) claims that the CNS stabilizes posture by intermittently suspending the active feedback controller, in such a way to allow the CNS to exploit a stable manifold of the saddle-type upright equilibrium in the state-space of the system, referred to as the dynamic-UCM, when the state point is on or near the manifold. Although the mathematical definitions of the kinematic- and dynamic-UCM are completely different, both UCMs play similar roles in the stabilization of multi-joint upright posture. The purpose of this study was to compare the dynamic performance of the two control strategies. In particular, we considered a double-inverted-pendulum-model of postural control, and analyzed the two UCMs defined above. We first showed that the geometric configurations of the two UCMs are almost identical. We then investigated whether the UCM-component of experimental sway could be considered as passive dynamics with no active control, and showed that such UCM-component mainly consists of high frequency oscillations above 1 Hz, corresponding to anti-phase coordination between the ankle and hip. We also showed that this result can be better characterized by an eigenfrequency associated with the dynamic-UCM. In summary, our analysis highlights the close relationship between the two control strategies, namely their ability to simultaneously establish small CoM variations and postural stability, but also make it clear that the intermittent control hypothesis better explains the spectral characteristics of sway