In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecting upon the perspectives of self and others: challenging, complementing and contradicting each other as critical peers. The book aims to be an enactment of sociological reimagination, as a way to reimagine public conversations that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodality around the intersection of identity (self), language (mediating mechanism) and power (sociocultural domain). Each chapter illustrates the use of dialogue as a participatory research tool as a way in which the sharing of knowledge and the growth of understanding occurs through meaning- and strategy-making processes. Together they present dialogue as an integrative model of self-inquiry and social activism and provide a valuable standpoint to understand the participatory nature of our very effort to question and investigate our sense of self in the world.

Aims to theorise and formalise the use of dialogue and conversation as research method

About the Author

Ching-Ching Lin's career spans more than 20 years of experience as a high school social studies and ESL teacher, college ESL professor, and TESOL and Bilingual Education instructor. She is currently a teacher educator and curriculum developer. She is the co-editor and a contributing author of the following two edited volumes: Inclusion, Diversity, and Intercultural Dialogue in Young People's Philosophical Inquiry (Brill Publishers, 2018) and Internationalization in Action: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion in Globalized Classrooms (Peter Lang Publishing, 2020).

Clara Vaz Bauler is an Associate Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education at Adelphi University, NY, USA. She is a sociolinguist and critical discourse analyst who is interested in unveiling unjust and often hidden educational practices that propagate language shaming and discrimination. She investigates language used in news media, social media and classrooms, inquiring on the contexts, purposes and consequences of using certain terms and enacting specific policing practices associated with languaging and migration flows.

Reviews
A provocative read! This innovative and risk-taking volume reimagines dialogue by putting it front and center as research method, demonstrating the potential of methods such as critical and collaborative authoethnography, dialogic testimonio, and digitally mediated public scholarship to uncover new insights in identity, language and power. * Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University, USA *
With distinct contributions from around the world, this volume is a refreshing reminder and call for attending to dialogue as transformative research. The editors have brought together a select group of authors who are pushing the boundaries of language research with critical and innovative methods approaching dialogue to better understand the nexus of language, identity, and power. * Bedrettin Yazan, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA *
This book embodies the dialogical approach to research, learning and knowledge co-making. The many simultaneously 'personal' and 'political' narratives and conversations break through the straitjacket of conventional academic writing and illustrate how methodological innovation and epistemological pluralism can be beautifully achieved. * Angel M. Y. Lin, The Education University of Hong Kong *



Book Information
ISBN 9781800414716
Author Ching-Ching Lin
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Multilingual Matters
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Weight(grams) 350g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm