Jones, a senior from Los Angeles who helped organize a new advocacy group, the Columbia University Concerned Students of Color, said that although Columbia boasts that it is the most diverse college in the Ivy League, "for many students, diversity on this campus exists just as a word; there is a lack of diversity in the exchange of ideas and discourse".
This article perceives the policy process as a dynamic interactive process, in which the role of ideas and discourse should be put central, and which suits discursive institutionalism theories (Schmidt 2010).
Also, although this was not the main intention of this article, this kind of research, which endeavours to combine policy developments with changes in practice, also provides valuable information to the debate about the role of ideas and discourse in policy analyses (Schmidt 2010).
However, Bruna (2009) argues that such pedagogical interpretation of the hybridity as a teacher's pedagogical strategy does not consider hybrid practices that are being constantly crafted by students to blend multiple ideas and discourses of home and school contexts.
The comparison of the social investment policies in Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea shows that while the four countries share similar ideas and discourses about social investment, they differ in how they approach social investment policy reforms, and hence the specific policy tools used to achieve their social investment objectives.
It is also not surprising then that much of the social investment ideas and discourses in these countries are also focused on creating opportunities for children to succeed in the new economy, and on shaping parental responsibilities through labour market participation.
It also expresses a connection with a global flow of ideas and discourses, accessed through new encounters and exchanges.
Even the ways we draw our distinctions between mind and body, ideas and objects, discourse and reality, are contestable.
As a form of critique, feminist philosophy of religion employs the practice described by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young (1989) of showing the limits of a mode of thinking by forging an awareness of alternative, more liberating, ideas, symbols, and discourses.
In the analysis, our aim was to examine data at a latent level, examining the underlying ideas, constructions and discourses that shape or inform the semantic content of the data.
In the analysis, our aim was to examine data at a latent level, examining the underlying ideas, constructions and discourses that shape or inform the semantic content of the data, interpreted within a material-discursive-intrapsychic theoretical framework [ 77].
