Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Banathy, Bela (Editor), Jenlink, Patrick M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Organization.; Planning.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Sociology of Education.

Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication offers a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. Presented in five parts, the book takes the reader on a journey of exploring the power and potential of dialogue as a means for communication. In particular, this vol...

Table of Contents:

• Dialogue
• Historical and Cultural Perspectives of Conversation
• Wholeness Regained
• Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin
• Designing Communities of Ideas for the Well-Being
• Dialogue and Spirituality
• Transforming Communities
• My Dialogue with Dialogue
• Perspectives on Dialogue Conversation
• The Five Dimensions of Bohm’s Dialogue
• Facilitating a Global Conversation Through the Universal Demosophia Facility
• Becoming Aware
• Doing and Talking
• Bohm’s Journey to Dialogue
• Carnival and Dialogue
• Modalities of Conversation
• Post-Formal Conversation
• Future Search Conversation
• Creating New Connections
• The Conditions for Thriving Conversations
• Practical Applications of Conversation
• A Community Round Table
• Corporate Conversation
• Conversation and the Development of Learning Communities
• Reflections on Searching Together for the Future
• Dialogue in Socio-Cultural Evolution.