Dialogism: Bakhtin's dialogic reconceptualization of architectonics as a philosophy of interrelations mediated by language and texts¶

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Description¶

The article presents dialogism as Bakhtin's appropriation and reinterpretation of Kantian architectonics. Holquist is quoted describing dialogism as "a form of architectonics, a general science of ordering parts into a whole." For Bakhtin, the space between minds and the world is dialogic rather than technical and systematized; dialogue is the interrelation of utterances that integrates continuously across differences, and texts are foundational for the disciplines. The article uses dialogism as its theoretical framework for reexamining integration in interdisciplinary education.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Accepts Bakhtin's premise that language is essential to how humans construct knowledge about the world, others, and themselves

Constraints¶

• Bakhtin accepts Kant's belief in an unbridgeable gap between mind and world but shifts focus to socio-historical interrelations

Target Learners¶

• college and university students
• educators and interdisciplinarians in higher education

Target Learning Objectives¶

• integrating knowledge across disciplinary boundaries through dialogic, text-mediated processes

Claims¶

• Kantian architectonics is an early articulation of constructivism, with knowledge constructed into a system [+W]

Related Theories¶

• The Kantian Effect: a metaphor and paradigm linking intertextuality and interdisciplinarity through four dialogic principles
• Dialogism, intertextuality, and hypertextuality: the language-centered genealogy leading to connectivism
• Architectonics: the philosophical tradition of building and relating meaning, knowledge, and experience
• Kantian architectonics: a theory of the systematic, constructivist organization of relations in cognition and higher education
• Dialogism: the relation of one utterance to other utterances as the context informing all writing

Examples¶

• Four architectonic guiding principles for integrating teaching, learning, and technology

Key Sources¶

• Dennis, J. K. (2020). The Kantian Effect: Reconceiving the Integration of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Theory. JIS Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 4(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED608667