Whose Discourse, Whose Ears? Harmony in Dialogic Pedagogy amidst the Post-Truth Noise

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Aireen Grace Andal

Abstract

Commentary on DPJ Editorial by Robin Alexander (2019), Whose discourse? Dialogic Pedagogy for a post-truth world. This commentary adds emphasis on the importance of the four areas of dialogic  pedagogy--language, voice, argument and truth-- that Alexander proposes to be invested in and prioritized more. It is argued that dialogic pedagogy will benefit from the development of the current approach to respond to the post-truth era, rather than from looking for new ways to do dialogue. Finally, it is suggested that practitioners of dialogic pedagogy take the post-truth era as a situation that fosters critical thinking and reevaluation of how dialogue is conducted.

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Andal, A. G. (2019). Whose Discourse, Whose Ears? Harmony in Dialogic Pedagogy amidst the Post-Truth Noise. Dialogic Pedagogy: A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, 7. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2019.276
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Commentaries on published articles
Author Biography

Aireen Grace Andal, Ural Federal University

Aireen Grace Andal is a graduate student of political philosophy and a junior researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies on Toleration and Recognition at the Ural Federal University. She is a citizen of the Philippines, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in sociology. Her recent fields of research interests are ethics, international relations and urban spaces.

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