Revisiting a Dialogue: Collaborative and Dialogical Practices in Motion

Abstract

The authors and eight other colleagues from Yucatan in Mexico, with an average of ten years of training and professional experience with collaborative and dialogic practices (CDP), carried out an investigation on how the practitioners of these practices develop a critical view of their professional activity. Our research is framed in discursive psychology, since we identify ourselves with the critical reflections about practicing. We reflect on how to adopt the discourse of the CDP, how it can be associated with the discomfort that one has with positivist discourses, as ways of challenging what is established, and even as a form of freedom. In addition, we review the CDP as a stance and a form of analysis, as well as offer our reflections on its possible colonizing and political effects. We offer some practical implications as a form of updating to face the new dilemmas that life throws at us.