(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(4) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(5) Derived patterns of discourse between female adults and preschool children confirmed expectations that most discourse is based upon three fundamental speech act pairings: question--answer, statement--reply, and directive--acknowledgement.
(6) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
(7) He might begin with a call for an end to all foreign wars, segue to demand the legalisation of drugs, throw in a defence of WikiLeaks and end with a detailed economic discourse on why the Federal Reserve must be abolished and replaced by the gold standard.
(8) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(9) I support the boycott discourse, but in order to develop this discourse, we need highly developed political consciousness.
(10) Other significant differences in discourse occurred between the two groups, but these varied from task to task.
(11) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(12) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(13) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
(15) And the discourse of those that are committing these crimes – they are not hiding these crimes, they are saying it very openly, very publicly, very systematically … and it’s not just rhetoric – the action they take is to implement the rhetoric.
(16) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(17) Manic patients produced thought disorders that revealed both prominent combinatory thinking and intrusions of irrelevant ideas into the stream of discourse, usually with flippancy and humor.
(18) There are rationalisations but very little actual discourse on the subject of banning assault weapons.
(19) Each lesson focuses on a different viseme which is practiced using the 'discourse tracking' method.
(20) Preliminary data from our single-case studies suggest discourse patterns similar to those reported for adults with frontal lobe injuries.
Pedagogy
Definition:
(n.) Pedagogics; pedagogism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ophthalmologist must explain to the child and the parents that dyslexia usually has no ophthalmological or visual cause but is a disability with a neurobiological background, still unknown, in which the only efficient treatment is within the area of pedagogy.
(2) Explain Everything is my number one recommendation,” says Mark Anderson, assistant head teacher and director of digital pedagogy at Sir Bernard Lovell school.
(3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
(4) Such activities are carried out with professional staff belonging to different fields in pedagogy.
(5) Although he was a significant educational reformer during the progressive era, a founder of various journals in psychology and pedagogy, a profile writer, and the individual who brought Freud and Jung to the United States, G. Stanley Hall's ideas on the education of nonwhites were, for his period, quite conventional.
(6) Child psychiatry is pre-eminently the branch of medicine which, as a consequence of the complexity of its tasks, has to depend to a great extent on psychology, on pedagogy and to no lesser degree, on the cooperation of parents and the whole of society; on the other hand, pedagogy should increasingly rely and draw on the latest achievements of child psychiatry.
(7) Social pedagogy is commonly practised in education and social care in many countries in continental Europe, but there is no real tradition of the approach in the UK.
(8) As appropriate use of the activity sheets requires familiarity with active pedagogy, training seminars are given to educators prior to the introduction of the Ctc programmes in the field.
(9) There are so many ways to teach Indigenous culture | #IndigenousX Read more I see teachers always struggling with what to do when wanting to incorporate Aboriginal pedagogies like Tyson Yunkaporta’s eight-ways approach, Chris Sarra’s Strong and Smart with what else the profession is asking of them, such as Alarm, quality teaching, visual literacy, direct instruction, and phonemic awareness.
(10) More subliminal than the work [I do] for Charlie , though very much in the spirit of Charlie .” He explains: “I don’t think art and literature are the same as pedagogy, to deliver overt political messages.
(11) A first goal of educational gerontology should be to develop programs going beyond those developed for children and realized in traditional institutions of pedagogy.
(12) Pedagogy takes into account the parents as well as the child in order to assist them and help them accept the situation.
(13) In dealing with the teaching of the doctor-patient relationship, the authors look into a relational-psychological perspective which is supported by notions and instruments intrinsic to medical pedagogy.
(14) Operative treatment along with conductive pedagogy and other methods of physiotherapy help these patients to be able to take care of themselves and to become useful members of society.
(15) Pedagogy is not only concerned with the impairment of intelligence, but seeks a global approach in which the affective relationship is taken into account.
(16) The development of a scientific pedagogy of learning disabilities as called for by Kirk and Bateman (1962) requires the rendering of a science of learning disabilities and a pedagogy derived from that science.
(17) Recent trends of pedagogy point out the importance of self-learning, which represents one of the applied models of mastery learning.
(18) Inescapably, though, there is this idea underpinning the toy industry, as well as strains of modern pedagogy, that male and female children are fundamentally different, that their interests stem from and reveal a difference in their brains and that to object to this is the endpoint of politically correct foolishness, arguing about evidence that's in front of your own eyes.
(19) The implications for further research and application are discussed, giving special attention to teacher effects, the needs of remedial mathematics instruction, and the claims of mastery-learning pedagogies.
(20) Other critics accuse Moocs of peddling outdated pedagogy; of playing a cruel trick on the masses because, even if courses are openly accessible, credentials will be as tightly controlled as ever; and even of being a new tool of western imperialism.