ISSN 0974-2085 MERI Journal of Education VOLUME XV NUMBER 1 APRIL, 2020 SPECIAL ISSUE - DIALOGUE Editor : Dr. S.P. Pathak Associate Editor : Dr. S. Dhiman UGC Approved No. 6071 Management Education and Research Institute 53-54, Institutional Area (Opp. D Block), Janak Puri, New Delhi – 110058 Phone : 011-28522201, 28522202, 28522203 Fax : 28522204 Email : meribs@meri.edu.in Web: www.meri.edu.in Peer Reviewed Journal Would like to appeal to the learned readers to send us their views, counter - views, suggestions, comments, and observations etc. on the articles published in this Journal so that an academic dialogue may start and our efforts may become more participative and thereby more meaningful and interesting. Editor The list of contents & abstracts of the articles of the MERI Journal of Education are available on our website: www.meri.edu.in ii MERI-Journal of Education (Peer Reviewed Journal) Patron - in - Chief Mr. I.P. 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The list of contents and abstracts of the articles (wherever given by authors) of the MERI Journal of Education are available on our website : www.meri.edu.in iv Editorial Friends, Since quite some time, we had been thinking of bringing out a ‘special issue’ and had been discussing what topic to take up which would interest all our readers. Earlier, we had organised Seminars and brought out the proceedings as ‘special issues’ on—Human Rights and Education, Swami Vivekanand and his Relevance to Teacher Education. A panel discussion on the topic ‘Rationale of Two-year B.ED. programme’, when it was a much debated issue, was organised in early 2006 and the views shared by eminent educationists were published in our April 2006 issue. Our sincere efforts have always been to keep our readers informed and updated. Then, one fine day, at a Seminar organised in the Department of Education, University of Delhi, Dr. Vikas Beniwal, Assistant Professor in the Department, asked if we would bring out a Special Issue on Dialogue. Well, it was a topic which merited serious thought. And we gave out a call, in our Oct. 2019, for the special issue on this topic. Dialogue in education is an important topic in the syllabus of B.Ed., as also an important concept which is understood in many ways as also misunderstood in many ways, even in the academic circles. We tend to use the term ‘Dialogue’ loosely—which includes talks, discussions, debates, conversations—in its ambit. Dialogue is used in many circumstances, occasions, places, which we will taste when we will go through the Articles on Dialogue. The Articles have been mainly written by the students of B.Ed. of the Department of Education, University of Delhi, under the expert guidance of Dr. Vikas Beniwal. Ms Pinky Yadav, an M.Ed. student also helped and interacted with the students of B.Ed. ,constantly mentoring them , which is quite apparent in the content and quality of the Articles. Alongwith the conceptual analysis articles of B.Ed. students, we wanted to incorporate in the second part actual classroom dialogues which teachers indulge in while explaining a concept or a theory – which is the most important aspect in the teaching-learning situation. The students are led into the subject by question-answer method. The teacher explains a concept by building upon the existing knowledge of the students by asking questions and seeking responses from them. The formation of questions is an extremely v important task—which are sometimes to check their previous knowledge and sometimes to evaluate their understanding and sometimes to lead them to the concept. We planned and made effort to have some such ‘actual class-room dialogues’ which take place in classrooms . For this purpose, teachers were approached and urged to provide us with some such dialogues and participate in this issue. These actual ‘class-room dialogues’ form the second part of this issue, and we are happy that we got some articles which we publish here. In the third part , we wanted to reproduce some famous dialogues—Plato’s Dialogue, Dialogue from Upanishads—the dialogue between Yama and Nachiketa, Dialogues of J. Krishnamurti where he talks to the students and some other dialogues, which we had collected aplenty, but everywhere there were copyright issues, which due to paucity of time and resources we could not pursue. And then this pandemic broke out, and the lockdown conditions slowed down the whole process. But we have been able to bring out this special issue. Our special thanks to Dr. Vikas Beniwal and his able team to make this special issue possible. Dr. S. P. Pathak Editor Dr. Sushil Dhiman Associate Editor vi CONTENTS PART A 1. Dr. Vikas Baniwal Explorations in Dialogue: An Introduction 1-5 2. Priyanka Sheoran The Essence of Dialogue 6-11 3. Ishita Solanki Understanding Dialogue as Impact 12-19 4. Parveen Kaur The Requisites of a Dialogue 20-23 5. Khushbu Jangid Fundamentals of a Dialogue 24-26 6. Sudhir Kumar Yadav The Nature of Conversation in Dialogue 27-29 7. Deepali Mahendru & Tanweer Alam Learning from Platonic Dialogues 30-35 8. Aradhana Luthra Dialogue 36-41 9. Pinky Yadav Reflections on Facilitating the Analysis of Dialogue as Dialogue with Self and Others : Journey of Pinky Yadav—in her own Words 42-46 10 Authors’ Details 47 PART B 11 About Upanishads 48-49 vii 12 Summary and Analysis of the Articles on Dialogue 50-52 13 Sushil Dhiman What is a Dialogue 53-56 14 Dialogue – Its meaning and Nature 57-62 PART C 15 Seema Agrawal The Power of Dialogue: Opening Avenues for Growth and Enlightenment in Schools 63-68 16 Tripti Upadhyay A Dialogue on Dialogue 69-73 17 Seema Rani Dialogue as a Pedagogical Tool : An Exploration 74-84 18 Dr. Vandana Gupta Dialogue in a Science Class- Room 85-92 19 Dr. Manisha Wadhwa nee Dabas Engaging Children with Dialogues in Science Classroom 93-103 viii