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Discourses on age: confronting disputed concepts by means of dialogue

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The article explores approaches to discourses concerning age, with different agendas and national contexts. The Dialogue Seminar Method is introduced, as a means of facilitating reflection and access to tacit knowledge. Democratic dialogue requires orchestration, and enables horizontal communication and collective reflection.

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  1. I bring this up because our co-written chapter on Intergenerational Learning (Ennals et al. 2007) was rejected by the American editor, because large parts of it were not considered “germane” to the overall topic.

  2. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/germane.

  3. See Foucault (1972) The Archaeology of Knowledge.

  4. Sällström 1991, p. 28.

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    Johan Berglund

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Berglund, J. Discourses on age: confronting disputed concepts by means of dialogue. AI & Soc 23, 117–121 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-007-0170-x

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