"It's not a man thing is it?" : a critical discursive psychological analysis of masculinity and emotions

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Of ethics and incompetence

From text: I have read with interest the article by Mareli Stolp “Report to the Academy”, the response from Dr Lyn Horn and senior colleagues at Stellenbosch University, and Stolp’s reply to them in turn (Acta Academica 48, 1 & 2). Since I am referred to in these texts (though unnamed), I wish to offer a brief report of my own.

Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities

This paper discusses the gap between policy goals and practice in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Drawing on a nine month ethnographic study of three residential services, it outlines a range of obstacles to the promotion of choice and control that were routinely observed in the culture and working practices of the services. Issues discussed include conflicting service values and agendas, inspection regimes, an attention to the bigger decisions in a person's life when empowerment could more quickly and effectively be promoted at the level of everyday practice, problems of communication and interpretation and the pervasiveness of teaching. We offer a range of suggestions as to how these obstacles might be tackle

Conversational shaping: staff-members' solicitation of talk from people with an intellectual impairment

In initiating and maintaining talk with people with intellectual impairments, members of care staff use a range of recurrent conversational devices. The authors list six of the more common of these devices, explain how they work interactionally, and speculate on how they serve institutional interests. As in other dealings between staff members and the people with intellectual impairments they support, there is a pervasive dilemma between, on one hand, encouraging participation and, on the other, getting institutional jobs done. The authors show how the practices of encouraging talk that they describe move between the two horns of that dilemma

Flexible Multi-Agent Protocols

In this paper we de ne a novel technique for the speci cation of agent protocols in Multi-Agent-Systems. This technique addresses a number of shortcomings of previous Electronic Institution based speci cations. In particular, we relax the static speci cation of agent protocols as statebased diagrams and allow protocols to be de ned and disseminated in a exible manner during agent interaction. Our exible speci cation is derived from process algebra and thus forms a sound basis for the veri cation of such systems