Sharing Words: Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning / Edition 1

by Ramón Flecha

Overview

Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable experience that invites the reader to share and comment with colleagues, students, and friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847695966
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/22/2000
Series:	Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.84(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Dr. Ramón Flecha is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Social and Educational Research, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He has published extensively on education and critical social theory, including Critical Education in the New Information Age (with Manuel Castells, Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Henry A. Giroux, and Paul Willis: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and “Modern & Postmodern Racism: Dialogic Approach and Anti-Racist Pedagogies”, published in 1999 in Harvard Educational Review (Vol. 69, 2).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: Priciples of Dialogic Learning Chapter 3 1. Manuel: A Life Spent Struggling against Cultural Inequalities Chapter 4 2. Lola: From "Illiterate" to Creator of a Literary Circle Chapter 5 3. Chelo: Subject of Her Own Transformation Chapter 6 4. Rocío: Overcoming Agism Chapter 7 5. Juan: Decolonizing Everyday Life Chapter 8 6. Rosalía: Dialogic Investigation Chapter 9 7. Antonio: Gypsy Contribution to the Dialogue Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Sharing Words is educational theory and practice at its best. Politically charged and theoretically resourceful, this book re-establishes the imperative of critical learning as a basis for social change, and education as a crucial site of struggle for a radical democracy. Anyone interested in education should read this book.

In Sharing Words: Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning, Ramón Flecha provides a unique example of the theory and practice of dialogic learning. By mixing educational and social theory with literature, life narratives, and personal accounts, Flecha creatively narrates the practice of dialogic learning in a seemingly utopian reality: a literary circle in which low-literacy adults enjoy reading books by authors like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, and García Lorca. The book highlights both theory and practice; it is both expository and narrative; and it refers as much to educational and social science works as to classical literature. In this way, Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable experience that invites the reader to share and comment with colleagues, students, and friends.

Knowledge is not always disseminated from the top down to students or consumers. Sometimes, as Ramón Flecha here demonstrates, knowledge flows from the bottom up, when individuals with no degree or academic background 'produce' and 'invent' cultural analyses on the basis of their own experience, their thought, and the exchange with other inventors of their own culture. This book successfully takes a close look at this alternative educational process.

From the Publisher

Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable experience that invites the reader to share and comment with colleagues, students, and friends.

November 1999 Harvard Educational Review

Knowledge is not always disseminated from the top down to students or consumers. Sometimes, as Ramón Flecha here demonstrates, knowledge flows from the bottom up, when individuals with no degree or academic background ‘produce’ and ‘invent’ cultural analyses on the basis of their own experience, their thought, and the exchange with other inventors of their own culture. This book successfully takes a close look at this alternative educational process.

Alain Touraine

Sharing Words is educational theory and practice at its best. Politically charged and theoretically resourceful, this book re-establishes the imperative of critical learning as a basis for social change, and education as a crucial site of struggle for a radical democracy. Anyone interested in education should read this book.

Henry A. Giroux

In Sharing Words: Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning, Ramón Flecha provides a unique example of the theory and practice of dialogic learning. By mixing educational and social theory with literature, life narratives, and personal accounts, Flecha creatively narrates the practice of dialogic learning in a seemingly utopian reality: a literary circle in which low-literacy adults enjoy reading books by authors like Kafka, Dostoyevsky, and García Lorca. The book highlights both theory and practice; it is both expository and narrative; and it refers as much to educational and social science works as to classical literature. In this way , Sharing Words may be an example of a new way of writing about educational theory and practice, one that results in a captivating and enjoyable experience that invites the reader to share and comment with colleagues, students, and friends.

Harvard Educational Review