Dialogical method

The lesson with Helena Aarnio

     On 10th March we met with our new lecturer Helena Aarnio. She researchs the Dialogical method for a long time. We have an opportunity to be familiar with this approach of teaching during this week. Firstly she gave us major points about this method. Then we discovered it or searched it by doing execises. As a main rules of the dialogue are equality among participants, principle of symmetry, listening word-for-word, suspending and wonderng, inquiring, weaving a synthesis. However, there are main rules, not all of them. We need to keep all of them to make a good dialogue.

      During first lesson we became familiar with those methods of dialogue like 'As equals', 'Dialogue tickets'. First method gave us ability to unterstand that freedom to share one's thinking as an equal member of the group is a central principle of dialogue and dialogue based knowledge creation. 

       In the next one we understood that every participant by using tickets kept turn to speak and to listen to, when member od group have told something others did not disturb him or her and did not disagree with him or her. In some cases, members just asked if they wanted to know deeply what said other one.

      In addition I noticed that I have started to understand this method. I thought it was easy, but I was wrong.