Abstract
ABSTRACT A ‘Dialogical Approach to Observation’ proposes refreshed and enhanced interpretation of dialogue. It attends to potential dialogical relation depending on how the protagonists regard others. Rather than assuming any exchange whatsoever is dialogue, the nature of the observed interaction indicates it is dialogical. Buber’s I-You ontology and Merleau-Ponty’s ‘gearing into’ underpin the theoretical perspective and the approach is compatible with more-than-human ontologies. Drawing on evidence from three case studies this proposal reconsiders what dialogue means and how to strengthen the practical relational processes of knowing dialogue in early childhood. Dialogical processes are found also between participants during the shared cycles of visual multi-modal analysis, so dialogue may be observed in dialogue. Perceptions of dialogue are refined in a less definite in-between space during discussion. Recommendations are made for future small-scale applications of the Dialogical Approach to Observation in participatory research, and for interpretation of young children’s experiences in dialogical pedagogy.
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