| Session Title: Circular Dialogue and Other Dialectical Methods of Inquiry |
| Skill-Building Workshop 269 to be held in Texas B on Thursday, Nov 11, 10:55 AM to 12:25 PM |
| Sponsored by the Qualitative Methods TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Richard Hummelbrunner, OEAR Regional Development Consultants, hummelbrunner@oear.at |
| Abstract: Circular Dialogues are systemic forms of communication among people with different perspectives. They use the perspectives and views of participants as a resource e.g. for appraising/validating different experiences or identifying joint solutions. After introducing the principles and rules to be followed in a Circular Dialogue, participants will be invited to break into sub-groups, agree on an issue per group and identify three relevant perspectives. Then two rounds of dialogue sessions will be run in parallel to provide participants with hands-on experience, which will be briefly reflected at the end. Circular Dialogue is an example of a dialectical method, which uses opposing viewpoints to gain meaning. In the final session, other dialectical methods of inquiry will briefly be outlined, namely: Convergent Interviewing, Contradiction analysis and Option One-And-A-Half. The session will end with a final round on the utility of dialectical methods in evaluation and by providing sources of further information. |