Full Description
This book takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. While Bakhtin's work has been widely received in educational studies in recent years, the academic literature does not sufficiently convey the sophistication of his cultural-historical works.
Selected works on the limits and perspectives of Mikhail Bakhtin are presented in the book. In doing so, the contributors seek to interpret the work of the Bakhtin Circle in a complex contemporary world. Layering and drawing from the many ideas explored by the Circle during their collective lifetimes and those that influenced their work, each chapter offers a different dimension of thought concerning issues facing societies remote (or perhaps not so remote) from the world of post-revolutionary Russia.
In the post-2008 era, during which financial crises have morphed into global recession and which characterise growing social inequities, widespread political instabilities and further environmental decline and resource depletion, what is needed more than ever is a twenty-first century Bakhtin, one that is occupied with the distinct challenges our times present to all of us. The individual contributors to Bakhtin in the Fullness of Time aim to contribute to a revisioning and reassessment of Bakhtin, through a diverse series of engagements with both his legacy and future promise. In contemplating Bakhtin in the fullness of time, historical perspectives and contributions must be encountered in a contemporary understanding that will contribute to philosophy of education today.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Contents
Introduction: Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
1. Tawhiao's Unstated Heteroglossia: Conversations with Bakhtin
2. Bakhtinian Bildung and the Educational Process: Some Historical Considerations
3. Chronotopoi of the Good Life and Utopia: Bakhtin on Goethe's Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister and the carnivalesque
4. Bakhtin and the 'general intellect'
5. Dialogic Ruptures: An Ethical Imperative
6. Bakhtin and the Russian Avant Garde in Vitebsk: Creative understanding and the collective dialogue
7. Bakhtin and Freire: Dialogue, dialectic and boundary learning
8. Bakhtinian dialogic and Vygotskian dialectic: Compatibilities and contradictions in the classroom?
9. 'Are you 'avin a laff?': A pedagogical response to Bakhtinian carnivalesque in early childhood education
