Learning Through Dialogue

Kenneth Paul Kramer is professor emeritus of comparative religious studies at San Jose (CA) State University, where he taught from 1978 to 2001. Among his works, he has published Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue (2003) and Martin Buber’s Spirituality: Hasidic Wisdom for Everyday Life (2012).

• ForewordPrefaceIntroductionPart ITHEORY/METHODChapter 1 Buber’s Two Ways of LearningChapter 2 Buber’s Method of InclusionChapter 3 Teaching as UnteachingChapter 4 The Broadest Frame: Dialogue as Meta-MethodologyPart IIAPPLICATION/PRACTICEChapter 5 Dialogues with TextsChapter 6 Dialogues with StudentsChapter 7 Interview DialoguesChapter 8 Journal DialoguesConclusionCritical TermsWorks CitedNotesIndex

In his previous book, Martin Buber’s I and Thou, Ken Kramer explains the complex thought of Buber to a lay audience better than anyone I have seen or read. In his new book, Learning Through Dialogue: Understanding Martin Buber’s Classroom, Kramer shows himself as an experienced and first-rate teacher, reflecting on his thirty years of teaching, showing how to teach dialogically, and illuminating the processes of teaching and learning as well as the thought of Martin Buber. By describing his efforts to create a more dialogical climate in the classroom, he shows us all how to become more dialogical in our everyday lives.