Episode 5: Learning in Relation

Teaching – and learning – how to be in dialogue is both fun and complex.  Join us as we talk with Diane Finegood about building scaffolding for effective conversation.  How to foster an ethic of care so that we can practice active listening.  We talk about the challenges of power differentials in the classroom and her iterative approach to devolving power through self disclosure and ungrading.  How group size matters.  And how online and in person classroom settings and tools can be blended to facilitate transparency, respect, and trust-building.  How does interruption fit? Diane is both interrupting the “sage on the stage” mode of teaching as well as developing spaces where interruption in dialogue is no longer offensive but more like an orchestra playing.

Links

To learn more about We Interrupt this Podcast and to suggest people we should talk to and topics you think we should explore, please see our webpage at: https://www.weinterrupthis.com or contact us on twitter at @HaakYak. You can find more about Diane on the Simon Fraser University Morris J Wosk Center for Dialogue webpage, here: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/about/fellows/diane-finegood.html/  More information about the Semester in Dialogue program is available here: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester.html 

Credits

• The intro and extro music is Bartok’s "Melody with Interruptions",  Mikrokosmos, Volume 6, played by Dr. Alan Huckleberry, for The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt3CimYcisU 

• The segue music is “Observe” by  Shane Ivers of Silverman Sound Studios https://www.silvermansound.com/

• The Podcast Illustration of a conversation circle.   Public Domain CCO license, no attribution needed.  https://www.rawpixel.com/image/6517755/png-speech-bubble-blue