Dialogues show how people actually use language. This page contains a list of pages with dialogues and lessons for different programs. Each lesson is based on a real world conversation.

Dialogues – Japanese

Dialogues

Conversation and dialogue are not simply the means that educators use, but are also what educators should seek to cultivate in local life. They encourage learners to enter relationships rather than treat them simply as methods.

Below are 5 people that believe teaching through conversation or dialogue is a good idea.

David Bohm – the eminent physicist and friend of Krishnamurti, whose example and practical proposals for dialogue have met a response from a number of different areas – but particularly those, like Peter Senge, who are concerned with organizational development.

Hans-Georg Gadamer – the philosopher who uses the metaphor of conversation to think about how we may come to understand the subject matter at issue.

Jürgen Habermas – the social theorist who argues for the need for ‘ideal speech situations’ in fostering both understanding and a humane collective life. ‘[A] humane collective life’, he said (1985: 82), ‘depends on vulnerable forms of innovation-bearing, reciprocal and unforcedly egalitarian everyday communication’.

Martin Buber made a significant contribution to the appreciation of encounter and dialogue in education. He emphasized genuine teacher student encounters by encouraging educators to listen to learners as individuals, respond authentically and create dialogue based on mutual respect rather than authority.

Paulo Freire linked the notion of dialogue to education. He argued that teachers should use dialogue in the classroom by encouraging students to question ideas, share experiences and learn through discussion rather than one way instruction.