Dialogue begins before the classroom, in choosing the content to discuss

Evidence

Only dialogue, which requires critical thinking, is also capable of generating critical thinking. Without dialogue there is no communication, and without communication there can be no true education. Education which is able to resolve the contradiction between teacher and student takes place in a situation in which both address their act of cognition to the object by which they are mediated. Thus, the dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in a pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 270

Categorization

• QUESTION: The concrete redesign implication: content selection, not facilitation technique, is where dialogical education starts. Worth pressing on what ‘asking what to dialogue about’ means operationally.