ABSTRACT
Effective dialogue for democratic decision-making requires and implies the moral virtue of openness to the other or “dialogic open-mindedness.” Dialogic education, which means education for dialogue as well as education through dialogue, implies a direction of development leading to greater openness to the other. This chapter argues for the relevance of dialogic education to the needs of democracy and then offers an empirical illustration of what dialogic education for values in the Internet Age looks like in practice. This paper supports the theory that dialogic pedagogy with Internet-mediated dialogues across cultural difference can produce identity change in the direction of becoming more open to the other. Dialogic pedagogy combined with Internet-mediated dialogues offers a viable response to the challenge of values education for a modern secular democracy.
