The First DPJ Dialogic Conference
Dear DPJ readers, supporters, and friends!
The first DPJ Dialogic conference, titled "Dialogic Pedagogy in times of peace and war," will take place between the 12th and the 14th of December 2022 online. To listen to presentations simply click on the Zoom link(s) stipulated in the programme
The Programme
KEYNOTES
KEYNOTE 1
Professor Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware, USA
The stand of Dialogic Pedagogy in our times of peace and war: My perspective
As a scholar and practitioner of Dialogic Pedagogy, I want to use this opportunity of my keynote address to articulate and discuss my perspective on Dialogic Pedagogy in our times of peace and war. First of all, let me define how I perceive “our times,” and then I will turn to how Dialogic Pedagogy in our times of peace and war may try to address these challenges or even it should do so. In my keynote address, I continue to develop the concept of Ontological Dialogic Pedagogy. What is the role of Ontological Dialogic Pedagogy in addressing the challenges of our times, if it all? How can it contribute to a vision for liberal democracy, if at all?
Eugene Matusov is a Professor of Education at the University of Delaware. He was born in the Soviet Union and studied developmental psychology with Soviet researchers working in the Vygotskian cultural-historical paradigm. He worked as a schoolteacher before immigrating to the United States. Now he investigates and works with sociocultural, Bakhtinian dialogic, and democratic approaches to education. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: International Online Journal and a cofounder of the University of Students. Address for correspondence: School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA (ematusov@udel.edu), ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7587-2266.
Matusov, E., Marjanovic-Shane, A., & Gradovski, M. (2019). Dialogic pedagogy and polyphonic research art: Bakhtin by and for educators. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Matusov, E. (2020). Envisioning education in a post-work leisure-based society: A dialogic perspective. New York: Palgrave.
KEYNOTE 2
Professor E. Jayne White, Te Kaupeka Ako, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand
“Mirror, mirror on the wall”: Image(ing) war (and peace) through visual surplus
Pushkin’s famous fairy tale “The Tale of the dead princess and the seven champions” features the all-seeing, all-knowing mirror whose grip on the image is timeless and absolute. The only way to alter it’s gaze, in this tale, is to do violence to those who stand in its way. Bakhtin’s 1940’s notes, written in the heat of war, likewise explore the mirror as “the lie that warms” (Rhetoric, 1943, p, 209) – one that clouds the image and demands allegiance through control. The only way out of its monologic gaze, he suggests, is by exceeding it’s bounds in creative contemplation with another subject (versus object). Reflecting on the work of the image in contemporary times of war (and it’s reverberations in so-called times of peace), Jayne works with the mirror as a metaphor for understanding both the allure and entrapment of it’s visage. With Bakhtin’s hopeful stance for the future, she will attempt to forge an escape from the monologic gaze that so ensnared Pushkin’s wicked Queen - summoning visual surplus as a pedagogical way out.
Jayne’s scholarship brings dialogic philosophy, pedagogy and methodology together to explore new ways of seeing and talking about becomings in education. As co-Director of Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP) and Editor-in-Chief of Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy Jayne invokes a series of provocations, potentialities and possibilities concerning the work of the eye (and the co-constituted 'I') through visual technologies, and in contemplation of educational thought and practice. Of note is her Routledge book “Dialogic Pedagogy for the Early Years” and the website she has developed for teachers, as well as numerous chapters, encyclopedia entries, papers and presentations. She is currently co-writing a textbook on Dialogic Methodology with Oxford publishers, expected to be published in 2023.
KEYNOTE 3
Professor Aleksander Sidorkin, The California State University, Sacramento, USA
A critique of dialogue
Buber and then Bakhtin advanced a revolutionary concept of relational ontology that privileges relations over entities. However. They made a mistake in selecting the primary relations. Dialogue is an important kind of human relation, but it is only one of many forms of relationality. It does not work well to serve neither as an explanatory concept of primary relation, nor as a teleological concept of an ideal relation. This is why dialogue is difficult to use in educational theory. Mother-infant relation is the primary relation, from which all other kids develop. Across the diverse landscape of cultures and institutions, different kinds of relations are valued, some of which are clearly non-dialogical. One kind of ideal human relation makes such an ideal exclusionary.
Alexander M. Sidorkin is Dean at the College of Education, Sacramento State University, USA. His scholarly interests include philosophy, economics, and anthropology of education. His recent book is titled Pedagogy of Relation: Education after Reform has been published by Routledge in 2022.
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The short (15 minutes) and long (30 minutes) presentations at the conference will be on the following four themes:
- Dialogic pedagogy and its tools to maintain peace and counter react to wars
- Methodology and method domain of dialogic pedagogical research and practice
- Educational dialogic interactions: dialogic pedagogy in practice
- Free theme: anything Dialogic Pedagogy
The participation is free of charge. The Zoom links to the key note presentations and sessions will be published in December 2022.
Theme |
Author(s) and Title |
Time |
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Introduction |
Professor Mikhail Gradovski |
The 12th of December 730 pm – 8 pm CET / 130 – 2 pm EST / 1230 – 1 pm CST/ 1030 – 11 am PST The 13th of December 530 – 6 am AED |
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Keynote 1 |
Professor Eugene Matusov: The stand of Dialogic Pedagogy in our times of peace and war: my perspective. |
The 12th of December 8 – 9 pm CET/ 2 – 3 pm EST / 1 – 2 pm CST/11 am – 12 pm PST The 13th of December 6 – 7 am AED |
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Theme 2 |
Dialogic Methodologies and Value Creation Melissa Riley Bradford and Amy Weatherford Video available: |
The 12th of December 915 – 10 pm CET / 315 - 4 pm EST / 215 - 3 pm CST / 1215 pm – 1 am PST The 13th of December 715 - 8 am AED |
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Theme 1 |
Imagining Beyond: Cultivating Peacebuilding Dispositions through Arts-Based Dialogue Amy Weatherford and Melissa Riley Bradford Video available: |
The 12th of December 10 - 1045 pm CET / 4 – 445 pm EST / 3 - 345 pm CST / 1 – 145 am PST The 13th of December 8 – 845 am AED |
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Keynote 2 |
Professor E. Jayne White Te Kaupeka Ako, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand “Mirror, mirror on the wall”: Image(ing) war (and peace) through visual surplus
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The 13th of December 6 – 7 am CET/ 12 – 1 am EST / 11 pm – 12 am CST/ 9 – 10 pm PST / 4 – 5 pm AED |
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Theme 2 |
The Answerable ‘I’ in dialogic Pedagogy Dr Bridgette Redder
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The 13th of December 7 30 – 8 am CET / 130 – 2 am EST / 1230 – 1 am CST/ 1030 – 11 pm PST (the 12th of December) / 530 – 6 pm AED |
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Theme 2
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Dialogue on Dialogic Method(ologies) in educational research and practice Jayne White & Mahtab Janfada |
The 13th of December 8 – 845 am CET / 2 – 245 am EST / 1 – 145 am CST/ 11 – 1145 pm PST (the 12th of December) / 6 – 645 pm AED |
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Theme 4
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Dialogic Pedagogy: should it cultivate pluralism per se? Sofia Sorokina |
The 13th of December 9 - 945 am CET / 3 - 345 am EST / 2 - 245 am CST/ 12 – 0045 pm PST (the 12th – 13th of December) / 4 – 445 pm MYT / 5 – 545 pm JST / 7 - 745 pm AED |
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Theme 3 |
Facilitating Talk in the ESL Classroom through Open Ended Questions: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices of Dialogic Discourse Sheila Adelina Ramasamy
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The 13th of December 945 - 1030 am CET / 345 - 430 am EST / 245 – 330 am CST/ 0045 – 1am PST / 445 – 530 pm MYT / 545 – 630 pm JST / 745 - 830 pm AED |
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Keynote 3 |
Professor Aleksander Sidorkin, The California State University, Sacramento, USA A critique of dialogue Video available: |
Tuesday the 13th of December 9 – 10 pm CET/ 3 – 4 pm EST/ 2 – 3 pm CST/ 12 pm - 1 pm PST / Wenesday the 14th of December 7 – 8 am AED
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Theme 3 |
Bletherbox: How does a dialogic approach support student engagement in reading for enjoyment? Dr Mellie Green Video available: |
Tuesday the 13th of December 10 – 1045 pm CET/ 4 – 445 pm EST/ 3 – 345 pm CST/ 1 pm - 145 pm PST / Wenesday the 14th of December 8 – 845 am AED
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Theme 1 |
Debate as dialogic genre? The paradox of ritualized conflict for maintaining peace. Catherine Matsuo |
Tuesday the 13th of December 11 - 1145 pm CET/ 5 – 545 pm EST/ 4 - 445 pm CST/ 2 - 245 pm PST / Wenesday the 14th of December 6– 645 am MYT / 7 – 745 am JST /9 - 945 am AED
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Closing of the conference |
Professor Mikhail Gradovski |
Tuesday the 13th of December 1145 pm - 1159 CET/ 545 - 559 pm EST/ 445 - 459 pm CST/ 245 - 259 pm PST Wenesday the 14th of December 645 – 659 am MYT / 745 – 759 am JST / 945 - 959 am AED
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Professor Mikhail Gradovski (Univerisity of Stavanger, Norway)