Author Description

My purpose in writing this small book is to offer a comprehensive summary of the system to introduce Dialogue Education to newcomers. It also offers a synthesis of essentials to those who are already generously using this system to design events that teach their students effectively. Readers will find more detailed studies of Dialogue Education in my other Jossey Bass/Wiley texts. Cf. Bibliography. I have seen that designs that lead to dialogue are A – accessible, B – beautiful and C – communicable. A design for learning is accessible to the particular learners in a particular context when it uses their language, their metaphors, and the kinds of learning tasks that are appropriate for them. A learning design is beautiful when it is clear and simple, well sequenced and significant to the particular learners in a particular context. A learning design is communicable when the new knowledge or skills or attitudes can be readily shared: husbands sharing with their wives, mothers with their children, friends with friends. Significant knowledge, skills and attitudes are too important to be kept secret or personal: they spill over into the community.