Dialogic Principles of Interactive Learning in the Ethnographic Relationship

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Dialogue is not just a "fashionable metaphor." It refers to a communicative exchange that is negotiated among individuals or between groups in ways that gender, ethnicity, or class identifications become strategic tools. When dialogic principles are applied analytically, the power of simple talk to make or break the ethnographic relationship is revealed. Dialogue refers mainly to talk among consenting subjects, whereas the dialogic concept remedies the analytical process that ethnographers typically impose. The dialogic anthropologist recognizes the equal role of subjects who can critically assess the subject-ethnographer relationship in their own terms. In light of this assessment, ethnographic approaches may be negotiated and modified; methodology may be called into question or even suspended if negative emotions associated with conflicting definitions of the situation occur.

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