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This book presents voices of educators describing their pedagogical practices inspired by the ethical ontological dialogism of Mikhail M. Bakhtin. It is a book of educational practitioners, by educational practitioners, and primarily for educational practitioners. The authors provide a dialogic analysis of teaching events in Bakhtin-inspired classrooms and emerging issues, including: prevailing educational relationships of power, desires to create a so-called educational vortex in which all students can experience ontological engagement, and struggles of innovative pedagogy in conventional educational institutions. Matusov, Marjanovic-Shane, and Gradovski define a dialogic research art, in which the original pedagogical dialogues are approached through continuing dialogues about the original issues, and where the researchers enter into them with their mind and heart.

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Introduction: Inspired by Bakhtin-The Aim, Focus, and History Behind This Research Project Part I Teaching Cases and Their Online Discussion
Chapter 1.1: Two Teaching Cases with Online Forum Discussions
Chapter 1.2: Standalone Teaching Cases
Part II Analyses of Teaching Cases: Issues in Bakhtinian Pedagogy Chapter 2.1: What Is Bakhtinian Pedagogy for the Interviewed Bakhtinian Educators? Chapter 2.2: Ontological Engagement
Chapter 2.3: The Educational Vortex in Bakhtinian Pedagogy
Chapter 2.4: Teacher-Student Power Relations in Bakhtinian Pedagogy Chapter 2.5: Bakhtinian Pedagogy in Conventional Educational Institutions Part III Dialogic Research Art
Chapter 3.1: Introducing Dialogic Research Art
Chapter 3.2: Dialogic and Positivist Research in the Social Sciences
Chapter 3.3: Summarizing Contrasts and Boundaries Between Positivist and Dialogic Research Part IV Conclusion: Lessons, Regrets, and Hopes
Chapter 4.1: Lessons We Learned About Bakhtinian Pedagogy
Chapter 4.2: Regrets About Our Polyphonic Dialogic Research
Chapter 4.3: Hopes About the Future of Bakhtinian Pedagogy and Dialogic Research Chapter 4.4: Project Participants´ Holistic Judgments About the Book

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Eugene Matusov is Professor of Education at the University of Delaware, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal. He investigates and works with sociocultural and Bakhtinian dialogic approaches to education.

Ana Marjanovic-Shane is an Independent Scholar and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal. Her research interests include dialogue, democracy, and drama in education.

Mikhail Gradovski is Associate Professor of Social Education at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He teaches and researches using a dialogical approach.

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