Global Perspectives on Dialogue in the Classroom : Cultivating Inclusive, Intersectional, and Authentic Conversations / edited by Ashmi Desai, Hoa N. Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desai, Ashmi, editor.

Nguyen, Hoa N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Intercultural communication.

Life skills.

Communication in politics.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Intercultural Communication.

Life Skills.

Political Communication.

Local Subjects:

Educational Policy and Politics.

Intercultural Communication.

Life Skills.

Political Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Summary:

This book explores globally-informed, culturally-rooted approaches to dialogue in the classroom. It seeks to fill gaps in communication and education literature related to decolonizing dialogue and breaking binaries by decentering Eurocentric perspectives and providing space for dialogic practices grounded in cultural wealth of students and teachers. We first describe the book’s genesis, contextualize dialogue within the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and share guiding concepts of inclusion, intersectionality, and authenticity in dialogue and pedagogy. We also distinguish dialogue from other practices and times in which dialogue may not be possible. The book brings fresh and urgent perspectives from authors across different disciplines, including ceramics, religious studies, cultural studies, communication, family therapy, and conflict resolution. The chapters distill the idea of dialogue within contexts like a bible circle, university sculpture studio, trauma and peacebuilding program, and connect dialogue to teaching, learning, and emerging ideas of power disruption, in-betweenness, and relationality. Ashmi Desai is Assistant Professor in Public Dialogue and Confl ict Management in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, USA. As a community-based researcher, her teaching and research interests involve dialogic pedagogy, international and intercultural communication, conflict management tools and approaches, and representations of culture, home and belonging. Hoa N. Nguyen is Assistant Professor in the Family Therapy Program in the Department of Human Services at Valdosta State University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on dialogic practices, ethics, cultural humility, and social justice in family therapy.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond Borders, Labels, and Divides

Chapter 2. Decolonizing the Classroom: Settler Colonialism, Knowledge Production, and Antiracism

Chapter 3. Interfaith Dialogue: Managing Paradoxes

Chapter 4. Harmony: Essence and Applications to Dialogue

Chapter 5. Not Transition, But Translation: A Dialogic Approach to ‘Differences’ in a Korean Diasporic Evangelical Church

Chapter 6. Los Seis de Boulder Sculpture Project: A Reflection on Dialogue and Community Building Through Art-Making

Chapter 7. Writing Black Queers into Existence: A South African Model for Dialogue Among Oppressed Groups

Chapter 8. Intergroup Dialogue for Social Healing: Creating Spaces of Collective Hope and Transformation

Chapter 9. Experiential Ecological and Art-Based Practices for Reconnecting with Mother Earth and with Each Other

Chapter 10. Dialogic Learning in the Time of a Global Pandemic and Beyond

Chapter 11. Relationality as a Way of Being: A Pedagogy of Classroom Conversations

Chapter 12. Dialogue and Systems Theory: Teaching Public Conversations in Family Therapy

Chapter 13. Honoring Culture, Holding Complexity: Synthesis and Emerging Possibilities in Dialogue.

Other Format:

Print version: Desai, Ashmi Global Perspectives on Dialogue in the Classroom

ISBN:

9783030890438

3030890430