Abstract
Since the ideas of Russian philosopher and literature theoretician Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975) have become hugely influential within diverse fields of the humanities and social sciences, there have been many theoretical and research attempts to study Bakhtinian pedagogical ideas and implement them in innovative education practices. However, in our project we attempt to pass the ownership of Bakhtinian pedagogy from mainly Bakhtinian educational academicians—scholars of education coming from Bakhtinian perspectives—to educational practitioners, interested in Bakhtin as their theoretical and philosophical orientation to their educational practice. Ours is a book of educational practitioners, by educational practitioners, and has been primarily written for educational practitioners. We provide a brief history of our project, research problems we encountered, and the resulting and constantly evolving transformations. We also introduce the development of a dialogic approach to the research as dialogic research art in which we, the authors of the book, understand ourselves as being in dialogue with the interviewees, with ourselves internally, with our past and present colleagues and students, and with our imaginary readers. We present the results of our analyses as dialogic provocations and invitations for our readers. At the end we provide a brief outline of the rest of the book.
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Here and further in the text, the feedback was provided by international Bakhtinian educators and scholars described at the end of this Introduction chapter.
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Sergeiy Sandler, who assisted us with some translation and editing, commented, “for Bakhtin, the issue is not so much with people not embodying their theories in their practice (or, probably, better to say, their deeds, postupki in Russian), but with theories not recognizing the primacy of practice/postupok over them.”
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Charles Bisley and Tara Ratnam, and three of us, revealed to the forum audience the authorship of their cases during the online discussions. Moreover, all our participants asked us to use their names in the published book.
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There are many videos of Alexander Lobok’s teaching in Russian: e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdQ7J_BEKU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifiWQo-iPs
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We defined “project participants” as those educators and scholars who expressed an interest in our book project in any ways during our search for self-identified Bakhtinian educators and who may be interested in Bakhtinian pedagogy.
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Matusov, E., Marjanovic-Shane, A., Gradovski, M. (2019). Introduction: Inspired by Bakhtin—The Aim, Focus, and History Behind This Research Project. In: Dialogic Pedagogy and Polyphonic Research Art. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58057-3_1
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