Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores globally-informed, culturally-rooted approaches to dialogue in the classroom. It seeks to fill gaps in communication and education literature related to decolonizing dialogue and breaking binaries by decentering Eurocentric perspectives and providing space for dialogic practices grounded in cultural wealth of students and teachers. We first describe the book’s genesis, contextualize dialogue within the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and share guiding concepts of inclusion, intersectionality, and authenticity in dialogue and pedagogy. We also distinguish dialogue from other practices and times in which dialogue may not be possible. The book brings fresh and urgent perspectives from authors across different disciplines, including ceramics, religious studies, cultural studies, communication, family therapy, and conflict resolution. The chapters distill the idea of dialogue within contexts like a bible circle, university sculpture studio, trauma and peacebuilding program, and connect dialogue to teaching, learning, and emerging ideas of power disruption, in-betweenness, and relationality.
Table of ContentsPart I The Value and Limits of Western Perspectives on Dialogue
1 Introduction: Beyond Borders, Labels, and Divides
2 Decolonizing the Classroom: Settler Colonialism, Knowledge Production, and Antiracism
Part II Navigating Paradoxes and Multiplicity
3 Interfaith Dialogue: Managing Paradoxes
4 Harmony: Essence and Applications to Dialogue
5 Not Transition, But Translation: A Dialogic Approach to ‘Differences’ in a Korean Diasporic Evangelical Church
Part III Between Rupture and Transformation
6 Los Seis de Boulder Sculpture Project: A Reflection on Dialogue and Community Building Through Art-Making
7 Writing Black Queers into Existence: A South African Model for Dialogue Among Oppressed Groups
8 Intergroup Dialogue for Social Healing: Creating Spaces of Collective Hope and Transformation
9 Experiential Ecological and Art-Based Practices for Reconnecting with Mother Earth and with Each Other
Part IV Ongoing Dialogical Practice in Classrooms 10 Dialogic Learning in the Time of a Global Pandemic and Beyond
11 Relationality as a Way of Being: A Pedagogy of Classroom Conversations
12 Dialogue and Systems Theory: Teaching Public Conversations in Family Therapy
13 Honoring Culture, Holding Complexity: Synthesis and Emerging Possibilities in Dialogue
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