Bakhtinian Pedagogy

E. Jayne White is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in the Faculty of Education, where she teaches in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. She has published in a variety of educational journals and texts over recent years. Her most recent work is Educational Research with our Youngest: Voices of Infants and Toddlers, co-edited with Professor Eva Johansson.Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Adjunct Professor in the School of Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). He is the editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Policy Futures in Education, and E-Learning and Digital Media. His interests are in education, philosophy, and social policy, and he has written over fifty books on those topics.

• Contents: Craig Brandist: Foreword – E. Jayne White/Michael Peters: Introduction – Eugene Matusov: Authorial Teaching and Learning – E. Jayne White: Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Ideologic Tensions in Contemporary Assessment – Olga Dysthe: Opportunity Spaces for Dialogic Pedagogy in Test-oriented Schools: A Case Study of Teaching and Learning in High School – Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos: In Pursuit of Musical Freedom Through Free Improvisation: A Bakhtinian Provocation to Music Education – Timothy J. Lensmire: Too Serious: Learning, Schools, and Bakhtin’s Carnival – Sarah Pollack/Yifat Ben-David Kolikant: Fostering Dialogue in a Context of Socio-Political Conflict: An Instructional Model – Fran Hagstrom/David Deggs/Craig Thompson: Clouds, Chat, and Chatter: A Philosophical Note on Technologically Enhanced Teaching and Learning – Karin Junefelt: Early Dialogues as a Teaching Device from a Bakhtinian Perspective – Elin Eriksen Ødegaard: On the Track of Cultural Formative Practice: A Chronotopic Reading of Young Children’s Co-narrative Meaning-making – Ana Marjanović-Shane: You Are «Nobody»! The Three Chronotopes of Play – Carolyn M. Shields: Bakhtin’s «Novel» Proposal: Lessons for Educational Leaders – Michael A. Peters: The Bakhtin Circle, Philosophy of Language, and Educational Theory.