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- Title
Feasts of becoming: Imagining a literacy classroom based on dialogic beliefs.
- Authors
Fecho, Bob; Botzakis, Stergios
- Abstract
The article presents suggestions for using dialog in the teaching of literacy in U.S. secondary schools. The authors acknowledge factors that may prevent teachers from using discussions, such as lack of time due to administrative mandates or fear that the discussion could become confrontational. They recommend Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic aspects and concept of language as support for teaching literacy through sustained and substantive dialog. The authors define a dialogic classroom as one in which: questions and responses come from all participants; the importance of context is embraced; multiple perspectives are encouraged; existing hierarchies are flattened; and learning is under construction and evolving.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LITERACY; DIALOGICS; COMMUNICATION in education; CONTEXT effects (Psychology); STUDENT participation; BAKHTIN, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich), 1895-1975; LANGUAGE arts (Secondary); SECONDARY education; UNITED States education system; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007, Vol 50, Issue 7, p548
- ISSN
1081-3004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/JAAL.50.7.4