ABSTRACT
The concept of dialogue as an ideal for face-to face relationships in education has a long history in Western societies. It can be traced back at least as far as Plato's Dialogues and the Socratic conversations. This chapter considers the possibility that even confession can be thought of in relationships between collective subjects. Dialogue operates as a means to reach a form of unity in diversity considered inevitable if the hope for a future Europe with smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and with high levels of employment and social cohesion is to be realised. Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) and the Bologna stocktaking process apply measures other than the imposition of directives, regulations or decisions. This chapter considers the Bologna Process, as an expression of the rationalities of OMC, operates as a goal directed machinery or, as we prefer to call it, as a dialogic dispositive for the governmentalisation of Europe as a transnational political space.
