DDE OS#3, Community vs Society, 2022-07-19

Democratic Dialogic Education, Open Symposium#3, 2022-07-19
"Community vs. society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education" by Eugene Matusov

Abstract: In this theoretical essay, I argued that the normative sociality of joint self-education is a society based on pluralism and tolerance of culturally and educationally diverse communities and individual educatees, their synergy, voluntary participation, and acceptance of the final sovereignty of their educational decision-making. I rejected a proposal that community (e.g., “community of learners”) should be the vision of this norm for such educational sociality. At the same time, I accept that an empirical community can be a very important part of a normative notion of society as applied to joint self-education. Balancing between communal, often centripetal, and societal, often centrifugal, processes is often necessary for maintaining a joint self-education endeavor.

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Good topic...i am very interested to learn particularly on dialogic pedagogy in the perspective of Paulo Freire...what is the history of this dialogic pedagogy? Hope you can help