{"id":746,"date":"2016-07-05T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/21stcenturylearners.org.uk\/?page_id=746"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:15:46","slug":"4cs-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturylearners.org.uk\/?page_id=746","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Dialogue is a therapy – perhaps the<\/em> therapy – against the mis-recognition of one person by another.” <\/strong>Dmitri Nikulin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What is Dialogue?<\/h2>\n

The Greek roots of the term ‘dialogue’ are \u2018dia\u2018 which is taken to mean \u2018through\u2019 or \u2018across\u2019 and \u2018logos\u2019 meaning \u2018speech\u2019 or \u2018reason\u2019.\u00a0When we engage in dialogue we are reasoning across the difference between\u00a0our personal perspective and another perspective. To engage in dialogue is to acknowledge and respond to other perspectives; to seek to understand them, to be sensitive to the differences between them and one\u2019s own understandings and to use these differences as a resource to generate new perspectives and to achieve richer understandings of ideas and of other people. To enter into dialogue is not to endeavour to impose one\u2019s own view or to uncritically accept the view of a more authoritative other, but rather to engage in a shared search for understanding and meaning; it is to enter into a relationship based on mutual respect. Indeed engaging in dialogue could be defined as an act of \u2018thinking together<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Why is Dialogue Important in Schools?<\/h2>\n

Quality dialogue is an essential medium for developing educational outcomes, and is a profoundly important educational outcome in its own right<\/strong>.<\/p>\n