In the words of Holland et al. (1998), identity is "an outcome of living in, through, and around the cultural forms practiced in social life" (p. 8) and develops through dialectic and dialogic interactions with the environment, cultural artifacts, and surrounding people.
In Plato's Akademia, the main organizing principle was not the frontal lecture but the dialectic: back-and-forth spoken interaction between senior and junior scholars.
Hegel called this evolution "the dialectical process" (see dialectic).
We highlight a dialectic between rural and urban that includes fruitful interactions between large-scale and commercial agriculture, small plot agriculture, and local food movements in both the agriburb and its neighboring city.
Interestingly, the incoming of further agents in the interaction arena drives to the establishment of a coral dialectic with the two original agents, like in an orchestra concert.
Yet for all their differences, the interaction of liberals and conservatives had been of a dialectic nature.
The random potential for human interaction as represented by the generative art forms is engaged in dialectic processing through a technologically mediated world that is constantly being renegotiated.
The humanist dialectic of the Renaissance shared many assumptions concerning the dialectical syllogism with the scholastics, but some authors developed a different understanding of dialectic.
There are some reflections in the literature on the educational impact of new technologies and two-way interaction between cultures; however, there has not been much systematic investigation into the dialectic of culture and new technologies.
(d) The interactions of IT and users in the force field follow a cyclical, self-reinforcing dialectic such that an enforced consensus process is required in order to boost acceptance and to limit the probability that continuing rejection leads to catastrophic failure.
