Learning in the Age of Digital Reason: Reinventing Dialogue

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Dialogue is an ancient form which defines Western science. Depending on tradition, dialogues can be focused to two extremes (and anywhere in the between): (1) Quest for absolute agreement or truth (e.g. Socratic dialogue), or (2) Quest for relative agreement or consensus (e.g. Heideggerian dialogue). However, this symposium reaches beyond issues pertaining to truth and/or to consensus, and explores dialogue as a building block for a larger project of collective research and collective intelligence. Papers in the symposium develop novel conceptions of dialogue, critique existing conceptions of dialogue, and explore practical opportunities for knowledge creation and dissemination through dialogue, in relation to human learning in the age of digital reason.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire

Chair

• Petar Jandric, Polytechnic of Zagreb

Papers

• Learning, Creative Col(labor)ation, and Knowledge Cultures - Michael A. Peters, The University of Waikato

• The Dialogical Challenge of Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy - Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University

• Politics and Pedagogy in the Age of Digital Reason: From Party to Party - Derek R. Ford, DePauw University

• A Body of Knowledge That Neglects the Body? - Sarah Hayes, Aston University

Discussant

• Natasa Lackovic, Lancaster University