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From Pride to Cowardice: Obstacles to the Dialogical Classroom
Author(s) -
Bain–Selbo Eric
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00147
Subject(s) - cowardice , pride , dialogical self , multiculturalism , ethos , sociology , humility , tragacanth , courage , context (archaeology) , epistemology , pedagogy , aesthetics , social psychology , psychology , law , political science , philosophy , paleontology , chemistry , food science , biology
Drawing on his own work in educational theory as well as his classroom experience, the author identifies important dialogical vices that he finds in his students: pride and cowardice. These vices are put both in the theoretical context of a greater understanding of the role of dialogue in learning and in the social context of the contemporary multicultural ethos from which the students come. In opposition to the vices, the author proposes dialogical virtues (humility, charity, and courage) and a concept of tolerance that help us to avoid pride and cowardice. In this way, we achieve genuine dialogue and multiculturalism and avoid what the author calls a pernicious multiculturalism