Dialogic Gathering of Adults

Dialogic Gatherings is a successful educational action currently implemented in more than 15000 sites of the five continents. They were created in La Verneda Sant Marti Adult School in 1979. There are more than 60 scientific articles in Journal Citation Reports and Scopus about the extraordinary success of this educational action. It is officially recommended by the European Commission’s DG Education in its Toolkit for Schools.
The first Dialogic Gathering was a Dialogic Literary Gathering and most of the 15000 already existing ones are also Dialogic Literary Gatherings. Nevertheless now, besides literary, there are also Dialogic Musical Gatherings, Dialogic Painting Gatherings, Dialogic Mathematics Gatherings, Dialogic Feminist Gatherings, Dialogic Scientific Gatherings, and many other versions of the Dialogic Gatherings.
They were created in the same year that Bourdieu published his book The Distinction, and as Erik O. Wright, then president of the American Sociological Association said: the Dialogic Literary Gatherings has demonstrated that Bourdieu was wrong in his concept of the distinction. Contrary to what Bourdieu wrote, with Dialogic Literary Gatherings workers, even illiterate workers, poor Roma people and others, they get to enjoy, understand, and dialogue about the best literary creations of humanity, the best musical creations of humanity. They have dialogues about Ulisess by James Joyce, about the One thousand and one nights, about the Ramayana, among others.
There are two main characteristics of all Gatherings. The first one is the dialogic learning, including the seven principles, for instance the egalitarian dialogue. That means that there are no hierarchies, like being a teacher or a participant; all persons are equal, and the value of what they say depends on their arguments,
not on their status. The second characteristic is the selection of the books, music, that are the best creations of humanity; they do not choose commercial best sellers of low quality.
With this course on Dialogic Gatherings students will learn about a successful education action with which they will be able to transform the inequalities that adult students have suffered in their lives, and which will make them able to enjoy, understand and dialogue with anybody about the best creations of humanity.

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