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Is there a place for conversational thinking (CT) in Europe?: Germany/Austria in perspective 对话式思维(CT)在欧洲有一席之地吗?:透视德国/奥地利

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i2.4

Christiana Idika

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Transhumanism in Africa: a conversation with Ademola Fayemi on his Afrofuturistic account of personhood 非洲的超人类主义:与阿德莫拉·法耶米的对话，谈他对人格的非洲未来主义描述

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i2.3

A. E. Chimakonam

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An application of conversational thinking to the problem of racial discrimination in South Africa 对话思维在南非种族歧视问题上的应用

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i2.1

Diana Ekor Ofana

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Conversational thinking as an alternative theory of development 对话思维作为发展的另一种理论

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i2.2

M. Enyimba

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Applications of conversational thinking: the role of collective action in merging contexts 会话思维的应用:集体行动在融合语境中的作用

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i1.7

Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian

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Decolonising method in the age of transdisciplinarity: a case for conversational thinking 跨学科时代的非殖民化方法:对话思维的案例

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i1.3

I. Negedu

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“Euclid” must fall: The “Pythagorean” “theorem” and the rant of racist and civilizational superiority — Part 1 “欧几里得”必须倒下:“毕达哥拉斯”“定理”以及种族主义和文明优越性的咆哮——第一部分

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i1.6

C. Raju

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Applying conversational thinking to the problem of xenophobia in multicultural societies 将对话思维应用于多元文化社会中的仇外心理问题

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i1.5

L. Ogbonnaya

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On the distinction between Friedrich Hegel’s dialectics and the logic of conversational thinking 论黑格尔辩证法与对话思维逻辑的区别

Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.4314/ajct.v1i1.2

E. Ofuasia

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