ABSTRACT

In the last chapter, I talked about a particular form of communicating, that of dialoguing. I took dialogue to be an exemplar form of a self-affirming communicating process. I also talked about this process as a form of practical inquiry that requires particular ways of relating with others in our questioning and listening. I ended the last chapter by asking you to imagine what form of practical inquiry could emerge if you took this dialogical orientation in communicating with others. That question raises other ones. How would we be acting/participating in research if we were sensitive to these questions? Is any research possible? What could it be like? What could it accomplish?