Can society nurture humanistic marketing?

For more than four decades, academic debates on the morality of marketing have focused mainly on the advantages and disadvantages of marketing as an institution. This essay questions the usefulness of such debates to addressing many challenges of life in contemporary society and argues that engagement in such discussions will only entrap us in vicious circles of argumentation. The author calls for collective social responsibility and argues that humanistic marketing can only be realised in a humanistic society

Dialogic-dialectic mathematical argumentation

The importance of mathematical argumentation for learning is undeniable. Yet there seems to be an underlying complexity constituting a good mathematical argumentation, particularly in the context of classroom-based group work, where social goals as well as disciplinary ones are at play. This paper hopes to provide a better understanding on how we can study learners’ behaviour during collective argumentation to inform the teaching and learning of argumentation in mathematics. In particular, it highlights how the potential and value of two seemingly distinct perspectives of understanding argumentation - dialogic and dialectic - can be used in concert for a more comprehensive understanding of mathematics argumentation

Getting our country back : the UK press on the eve of the EU referendum

This paper investigates a critical discourse analysis the author has conducted of UK mainstream newspaper coverage on the eve of the EU referendum. Immigration became a key issue in the closing days. The paper will explore the possibility that the discourse moved from persuasion to prejudice and xenophobia. The paper will also argue that in the age of populist post-truth politics, some of the newspapers also employed such emotive rhetoric, designed to influence and compel the audience to draw certain conclusions – to get their country back. In so doing, it is argued some of the UK media also pose a serious threat to democracy and journalism – rather than holding those in power to account and maintaining high journalistic standards. The notion that that some of the UK media played on public perceptions and a collective memory that has created, propagated and embedded many myths about the EU for decades, is explored. The possibility this swayed many – despite limited or a lack of substantiation, is explored, a discourse of ellipsis, if you will