Knowledge and interaction through diverse lenses

Authors

  • Ivana Markova Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25755/int.343

Keywords:

Knowledge, Interaction, Dialogicality, Ego-Alter, Ego-Alter-Object, Communication genre.

Abstract

The concepts like knowledge and interaction have acquired many different meanings in human and social sciences and consequently, the knowledge construction in cognitive science, computing, socio-biology and dialogicality refers to diverse processes. This article draws attention to such diversities in meanings of knowledge and interaction and to their ontologies. It first discusses the Cartesian, connectivist and neuro-biological approaches to knowledge and processing of information. It then presents a dialogical theory of knowledge based on the Ego-Alter interaction. It argues that knowledge is co-constructed jointly by the Ego-Alter, leading to the epistemological triadic relation the Ego-Alter-Object. Dialogical theory brings communication into the centre of the theory of knowledge. The last part of the paper discusses the construction of knowledge in and through communication genres, giving as examples persuasion and argumentation.

Author Biography

Ivana Markova, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

Professor Auxiliar do Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa. Áreas de investigação: Didáctica das ciências; Conhecimento e desenvolvimento profissional de professores; A discussão de questões sociocientíficas na educação em ciências; Integração das TIC na educação em ciências.

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Published

2007-11-05

How to Cite

Markova, I. (2007). Knowledge and interaction through diverse lenses. Interacções, 3(7). https://doi.org/10.25755/int.343

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 7 (2007): A construção de conhecimento enquanto empreendimento dialógico/interactivo II.

Section

Number 7 - The construction of knowledge as dialogical/interactive enterprise II

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