Reflections on a dialogic pedagogy inspired by the writings of Bakhtin: an account of the experience of two professors working together in the classroom

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Anselmo Lima
Katherine von Duyke

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The practice of a dialogic pedagogy inspired by the writings of Bakhtin is increasingly popular in different parts of the world. This article is an account produced in the spirit of such pedagogy. Two professors (one from Brazil, the other from the United States), both members of an international dialogic pedagogy study group, write together to discuss the work they developed in partnership under this educational paradigm when teaching a course on “Diversity in secondary education” in the School of Education of the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Delaware, USA. After presenting brief introductory information on who they are, how they met and how they happened to work together, the two scholars present classroom interaction data followed by reflections on to what extent certain forms of classroom interaction they identified in the data promote or inhibit the practice of a truly Bakhtinian Dialogic Pedagogy. In other words, what the readers will find in this article is not a traditional empirical study, but a telling case of two educators learning from one another about what counts as dialogic in the classroom, while at the same time using the aforementioned course as an anchor for multiple discussions.

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Lima, A., & von Duyke, K. (2016). Reflections on a dialogic pedagogy inspired by the writings of Bakhtin: an account of the experience of two professors working together in the classroom. Dialogic Pedagogy: A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, 4. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2016.159
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Anselmo Lima, Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil

Ph.D in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP); Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil.

Katherine von Duyke, University of Delaware – UDel, Newark, Delaware, USA

Ph.D in Sociocultural and Community-Based Approaches from the University of Delaware (UDel); Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, United States.