Expanding socio-psychological study through Bahktinian dialogicality

Abstract

In this essay, we discussed the applicability of Bakhtin's concept on dialogue for socio-psychological study. First, we briefly show the essence of Bakhtinian dialogism. Second, reviewing the recent trends of studies on learning and development, we found that the great deal of effort has been made on explicating the socio-cultural processes of learning and development. Also we found these two problems are key to understanding of socio-cultural process; the problem of dialogical organization of learning situation and the problem of repertoire of learning practice. And finally, we illustrated the applicability of Bahktinian dialogicality, through children's interaction data on play activity and collaborative problem solving.View full abstract