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.