Dialogic Pedagogy and Polyphonic Research Art Bakhtin by and for Educators

This book presents voices of educators describing their pedagogical practices inspired by the ethical ontological dialogism of Mikhail M. Bakhtin. It is a book of educational practitioners, by educational practitioners, and primarily for educational practitioners. The authors provide a dialogic analysis of teaching events in Bakhtin-inspired classrooms and emerging issues, including: prevailing educational relationships of power, desires to create a so-called educational vortex in which all students can experience ontological engagement, and struggles of innovative pedagogy in conventional educational institutions. Matusov, Marjanovic-Shane, and Gradovski define a dialogic research art, in which the original pedagogical dialogues are approached through continuing dialogues about the original issues, and where the researchers enter into them with their mind and heart.

Eugene Matusov is Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal. He investigates and works with sociocultural and Bakhtinian dialogic approaches to education.

Ana Marjanovic-Shane is an Independent Scholar and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal. Her research interests include dialogue, democracy, and drama in education.

Mikhail Gradovski is Associate Professor of Social Education at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He teaches and researches using a dialogical approach.