The Dialogic Pedagogy of Mikhail Bakhtin

Bakhtin's theories of alterity, dialogue, novel, carnaval and polyphony are supplemented now with an article still unpublished in Spanish which Bakhtin wrote in 1945, when he was teaching at secondary schools in Savelovo and Kimry, "Voprosy stilistiki na urokakh russkogo iazyka v srednei shkole" ("Dialogic Origin and Dialogic Pedagogy of Grammar. Stylistics in Teaching Russian Language in Secondary School"). This article allows us to bring together Bakhtin's and Freire's thought as to dialogue and critical literacy, and Bakhtin's and Vygotsky's ideas on the zone of proximal development, founding that which could be called a dialogic pedagogy. The theory of dialogue continues to widen its scope, now extending itself to classroom work and proposing a democratic and responsible teaching practice.