Radical Experiment in Dialogic Pedagogy in Higher Education & Its Centauric Failure - Chronotopic Analysis

This book analyses a unique pedagogical experiment in Higher Education to explore innovative ways to teach a graduate seminar guided by Dialogic Pedagogy. There have been many books describing successful pedagogical innovations in higher education and beyond. In contrast, this book describes a certain type of pedagogical failure of the innovation that is arguably common in practice but rarely reported. This pedagogical failure is called a "Centauric Failure". Like the Centaur, who embodied two contrasting natures of half-human and half-beast, this pedagogical experiment was guided by humanistic and dialogic values, but also it caused pains to the participants. The in-depth analysis of events has pushed the boundaries of Dialogic Pedagogy based on the framework developed by Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin toward the notion of agency in education.

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• Authors: Joseph Brobst, Eugene Matusov, Eugene Matusov
• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9781622573622
• ISBN: 978-1-62257-362-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 262 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 524 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries