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The Dialogical Self: Converging East-West Constructions

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

Prompted by the work of Hermans, we attempt to construct the dialogical self informed by Eastern traditions. To describe dialogical phenomenology we turn to three esources: (a) ~”\ Chinese intellectual traditions, (b) dreams and (c) daily life. J Dialogical attributes … Continue reading →

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The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept of culture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition … Continue reading →

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Pattern-recognition, intersubjectivity, and dialogic meaning-making in education

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

From a conventional monological view, meaning-making is located in a particular statement. In conventional schools, students are positioned to be enactors of ready-made knowledge and skills on teacher’s demand based on their pattern-recognition and production, rather than to be authors … Continue reading →

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Both Dialogic and Dialectic

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Wertsch’s sociocultural anthropology, grounded in a theory of mind which owes much to the ideas of Vygotsky and Bakhtin, has enabled a rich understanding of classroom learning in terms of ‘growing semiotic control’ and ‘mastery of the mediational means’. This … Continue reading →

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Social Poetics as a Relational Practice – Creating Resourceful Communities

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Our overall interest here, is in those kinds of things that people can only do together that they cannot possibly do apart, in isolation from each other. Our interests resonate with the themes and topics expressed in the epigraph quotes … Continue reading →

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Literature Reviews: Generative and Transformative Textual Conversations

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The intention of this article is to invite readers to explore and understand how literature reviews can be conducted from a systemic and dialogical approach. After reading a paper by Montuori, I considered how literature reviews could be situated systemically … Continue reading →

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The Dialogically Extended Mind: Language as Skilful Intersubjective Engagement

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

A growing conceptual and empirical literature is advancing the idea that language extends our cognitive skills. One of the most influential positions holds that language – qua material symbols – facilitates individual thought processes by virtue of its material properties. … Continue reading →

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Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Sociocultural Practice and Theory of Education

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Giorgio Bertini

Book. For more than a quarter-century, the polemics surrounding educational reform have centered on two points of view: those that favor a “progressive” child-centered form of education, and those that would prefer a return to a more structured, teacher-directed curriculum … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Relationships and Dialogic Conversations

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Knowledge and language are contextualized social, cultural, historical, and communal processes. Creating theories, ideas, truths, beliefs, realities, or how-tos is an interactive interpretive process of social discourse that occurs within knowledge communities and is produced in language; all parties contribute … Continue reading →

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Situated Dialogic Action Research – Disclosing ‘‘Beginnings’’ for Innovative Change in Organizations

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

I want to discuss a version of collaborative action research oriented toward exploring, and verbally articulating, the real possibilities for making an innovative next step in a specific situation in a particular organization. There are many situations in organizational life … Continue reading →