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Learning Through Dialogue offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning, which utilizes Martin Buber's dialogical principles: turning toward, addressing affirmatively, listening attentively, and responding responsibly. The book first presents Buber's educational theory and method and second presents specific examples of how Buber's dialogical philosophy can be applied in the classroom.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I THEORY/METHOD
Chapter 1 Buber's Two Ways of Learning
Chapter 2 Buber's Method of Inclusion
Chapter 3 Teaching as Unteaching
Chapter 4 The Broadest Frame: Dialogue as Meta-Methodology
Part II APPLICATION/PRACTICE
Chapter 5 Dialogues with Texts
Chapter 6 Dialogues with Students
Chapter 7 Interview Dialogues
Chapter 8 Journal Dialogues
Conclusion
Critical Terms
Works Cited
Notes
Index
About the author
Kenneth Paul Kramer is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religious Studies at San Jose State University, where he taught from 1978 to 2001. He is the author of Redeeming Time: T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (2007); Martin Buber's I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue (2003); Death Dreams: Unveiling Mysteries of the Unconscious Mind (1993); The Sacred Art of Dying (1988); and World Scriptures: An Introduction to Comparative Religions (1986).
Summary
Learning Through Dialogue offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning, which utilizes Martin Buber's dialogical principles: turning toward, addressing affirmatively, listening attentively, and responding responsibly. The book first presents Buber's educational theory and method and second presents specific examples of how Buber's dialogical philosophy can be applied in the classroom.
