ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the ways in which each one of us, in each and every moment of our lives, interprets and translates every interaction in order to enhance and validate our own personal narratives, experience, and truths. Accessing knowledge requires, actually demands, dialogue at many different levels, interacting with multiple discourses, truths, and voices. The pauses are the places where the dialogue can become known, where voices can be heard and participation can be experienced. Westwood, Boyd, and Redwood provide elegant and creative examples of the ways in which metaphor and allegory can open up previously striated spaces, and in doing so, stimulate dialogue. Awareness of participation in a dialogue brings with it a heightened sense of responsibility and accountability, as Redwood alludes to when she describes the unconscious incompetence of unreflective ethics procedures. All knowledge of the human subject, Mikhail Bakhtin argued, is formed through words, through language and in dialogue.
