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What is Dialogue?
Jung Min Choi, Ph.D.
San Diego State University
The Dignified Learning Project
Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library January 14,
2017
What is Dialogue?
Social Ontology of I and Thou
Epistemological Curiosity – What is this?
Typical understanding of dialogue is conversation
Conversation + engagement
Engagement + background
Background + understaning
Understanding + Transparency in exchanging
information
Do we have dialogue? Not necessarily
Continued…
Student Centered (SC) or Community Centered (CC)
Compassion and Attentiveness may help, but not
central in creating dialogue
SC/CC + Courting Intimacy
Courting Intimacy + Close examination
Dialogue is not an encounter – not a partnership of
two distinct entities, usually expert and lay persons or
expert and community or teachers and students
Must go beyond ideas and terminology like
stakeholders, partners, etc (terms that reflect
business transactions).
Continued…
Making students/community members/patients feel
important or even having intense intimacy cannot be
confused with recognizing the legitimacy of what they
say
Needs to go beyond decorum of being nice and
accepting
What is dialogue then? Back to the question of
Epistemological Curiosity
Everything that have been discussed + World Entry
World entry – grasping the “linguistically interpreted
world”
Speaking the same language (English/Spanish)
doesn’t lead to grasping this idea with respect to
community engagement
Continued…
Dialogue as “epistemological entrée” or World entry
Rather than simply an encounter, it is a meeting (Martin
Buber). Encounter can be coming together of brut facts or
entities whereas meeting is much more nuanced, the fickle
nature of human condition
1) Learning to interpret local knowledge “lifeworld” of the
community/groups (students, patients, etc.)
2) Reflection – constant reflection on the storylines of a
community (not just the concerns and desires of the
community, but the underlying bases and the assumptions
that guide those concerns and desires). Problematizing the
symptoms of a community
Continued…
Frameworks, rather than symptoms should be the
focus of attiontion
Symptoms may not indicate anything; instead, they
must be read and interpreted correctly to have any
meaning
Thus, close examination is not equal to proper
reading, reflecting, re-reading, reflecting…
How does the mind reflect? Without the ability to
interpret and imagine worlds, this is not possible. But
because human beings have this capacity, engaging
in reflection is KEY to dialogue
Continued…
Reflection reveals the limits and impact of the
storylines – yours, mine, and everyone else’s
Only then, can we enter into each other’s worlds in a
proper manner without what Freire calls, “cultural
invasion” where my stories dominate, intimidate, and
dismiss your stories, thus leading to the violence of
assimilation
Through reflection, the boundaries of storylines
become revealed. No story is limitless or boundless,
thereby the argument of one world-view being
essentially and universally superior to another loses
credibility
Conclusion
What is left is the urgency for dialogue so the
world can reflect the “meeting place” between I
and Thou
This is not easy or entirely efficient, but must be
engaged in order to bring about a world that is
uniquely human, a world based on dignity and
love.
Thank You!

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The Dignified Learning Project: What is Dialogue?

  • 1. What is Dialogue? Jung Min Choi, Ph.D. San Diego State University The Dignified Learning Project Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library January 14, 2017
  • 2. What is Dialogue? Social Ontology of I and Thou Epistemological Curiosity – What is this? Typical understanding of dialogue is conversation Conversation + engagement Engagement + background Background + understaning Understanding + Transparency in exchanging information Do we have dialogue? Not necessarily
  • 3. Continued… Student Centered (SC) or Community Centered (CC) Compassion and Attentiveness may help, but not central in creating dialogue SC/CC + Courting Intimacy Courting Intimacy + Close examination Dialogue is not an encounter – not a partnership of two distinct entities, usually expert and lay persons or expert and community or teachers and students Must go beyond ideas and terminology like stakeholders, partners, etc (terms that reflect business transactions).
  • 4. Continued… Making students/community members/patients feel important or even having intense intimacy cannot be confused with recognizing the legitimacy of what they say Needs to go beyond decorum of being nice and accepting What is dialogue then? Back to the question of Epistemological Curiosity Everything that have been discussed + World Entry World entry – grasping the “linguistically interpreted world” Speaking the same language (English/Spanish) doesn’t lead to grasping this idea with respect to community engagement
  • 5. Continued… Dialogue as “epistemological entrée” or World entry Rather than simply an encounter, it is a meeting (Martin Buber). Encounter can be coming together of brut facts or entities whereas meeting is much more nuanced, the fickle nature of human condition 1) Learning to interpret local knowledge “lifeworld” of the community/groups (students, patients, etc.) 2) Reflection – constant reflection on the storylines of a community (not just the concerns and desires of the community, but the underlying bases and the assumptions that guide those concerns and desires). Problematizing the symptoms of a community
  • 6. Continued… Frameworks, rather than symptoms should be the focus of attiontion Symptoms may not indicate anything; instead, they must be read and interpreted correctly to have any meaning Thus, close examination is not equal to proper reading, reflecting, re-reading, reflecting… How does the mind reflect? Without the ability to interpret and imagine worlds, this is not possible. But because human beings have this capacity, engaging in reflection is KEY to dialogue
  • 7. Continued… Reflection reveals the limits and impact of the storylines – yours, mine, and everyone else’s Only then, can we enter into each other’s worlds in a proper manner without what Freire calls, “cultural invasion” where my stories dominate, intimidate, and dismiss your stories, thus leading to the violence of assimilation Through reflection, the boundaries of storylines become revealed. No story is limitless or boundless, thereby the argument of one world-view being essentially and universally superior to another loses credibility
  • 8. Conclusion What is left is the urgency for dialogue so the world can reflect the “meeting place” between I and Thou This is not easy or entirely efficient, but must be engaged in order to bring about a world that is uniquely human, a world based on dignity and love.