Re: Freire and monologism

Jay Lemke (JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Fri, 05 Apr 96 21:11:12 EST

A short reply to Robin's question at a busy moment.

No, I did not mean to imply that it does not matter whether
students' publicly participate or not ... of course it matters
in some ways for some purposes ... but that is not the issue,
I believe, for Freire, or for Bakhtin, in discussing what they
mean by dialogic or dialogical. What we should learn from them
is that we can easily trivialize the notion of dialogue by
accepting the mere form of publicly voiced exchange structures
in place of the more important issues they raise. A lot of
classroom 'dialogue' is no more than monologue superficially
transformed in structure. In fact this is my basic interpretation
of the famous IRE or IRF triadic structure (in _Talking Science_).
JAY.

JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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