Anna Sfard Keynote

2020-06-20 Anna Sfard Keynote

Dilemmas of dialogic pedagogy and how to cope with them.

Argumentation does not help them to converge

Is it possible that “I have the right to my own opinion” is an accidental product of dialogic education?

Multivocality

Story: Coherent, interconnected set of utterances. Chronologically, inferentially, logically

Incommensutability of discourses: The absence of a common measure.

Thomas Kuhn was criticized for the use of incommensurability and paradigm because they were not operationizable. But maybe we can now.

Research: dialogism and incommensurability.

When a competing story arrives, don’t argue. The roots of endorsement exist within discourses.

Accelerated entropy of communication

Bang et al’s idea of axiological innovations seems to question essential notice/deontic dilemma: Bang, M., Faber, L., Gurneau, J., Marin, A., & Soto, C. (2016). Community-based design research: Learning across generations and strategic transformations of institutional relations toward axiological innovations. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 23(1), 28-41.
*ontic/deontic

There are shared rules for how to win a game you have chosen, but no rules for how

Teleological education framed as missionary work. Whose game gets played

===== Can you speak to

===== Writing reflection Williams, against telos in education. (2020)

Multivocality: Competing stories about X.