Bakhtinian Pedagogy

This collection brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice across multiple cultural and pedagogical. These encounters offer fresh perspectives on contemporary issues in education, and consider pedagogical responses that are framed within a dialogic imperative. The book also pioneers an important discussion about the place of the Bakhtin Circle in educational philosophy today. Drawing on the historical and contemporary scholarship that has already taken place in education, to date, it emphasizes the living nature of language as intentional acts that take place within learning relationships. Consideration is given to the wider contexts in which pedagogy takes place, and shifts the role of the teacher as expert transmitter of knowledge to dialogic partner in learning. Bakhtinian Pedagogy would be particularly suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate Teacher Education courses that focus on pedagogical studies across early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary courses. It would also be a suitable text for Educational Philosophy students at postgraduate level.