The educational regime of the Bakhtinian dialogue

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2023.561

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Eugene Matusov
School of EducationUniversity of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

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Many dialogue-oriented educationalists are attracted to the Bakhtinian notion of dialogue. In this theoretical essay, I have abstracted five major features of the Bakhtinian dialogue and considered what kind of educational regime emerges from these features. In conclusion, I problematize the notion of Bakhtinian dialogue and its regime for education. The paper was presented and discussed at the 17th Bakhtinian conference in Saransk, Russia, in 2021.

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Matusov, E. (2023). The educational regime of the Bakhtinian dialogue. Dialogic Pedagogy: A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, 11(1), E1-E15. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2023.561
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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
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Author Biography

Eugene Matusov, School of EducationUniversity of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Eugene Matusov is a Professor of Education at the University of Delaware. He studied developmental psychology with Soviet researchers working in the Vygotskian paradigm and worked as a schoolteacher before immigrating to the United States. He uses sociocultural and Bakhtinian dialogic approaches to education. His current research and practice focus is on Democratic Dialogic Education. His recent books are: Matusov, E. (2020), "Envisioning education in a post-work leisure-based society: A dialogic perspective." Matusov, E., Marjanovic-Shane, A., & Gradovski, M. (2019), "Dialogic pedagogy and polyphonic research art: Bakhtin by and for educators."

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