Vern W. McGee's scientific contributions

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... Thus, the aim of this process is to subdue, silence and dominate individuals-and especially underrepresented and marginalized scholars-in ways that often contradict the very reasons why they were hired in the first place (e.g., science teacher educator with a research focus on equity, crosscultural education, and/or social justice). The politics of domestication are the polar opposite of what Bakhtin (1981Bakhtin ( , 1986) implies when someone is socialized into a community practice's unique speech genre (or discourses) and practices that enables that community to function. In this type of process, the individual's identity, voice, or speaking consciousness (Werstch, 1991) is assumed to be welcome, heard and engaged in dialogue. ...
... El marco dialógico parte de una doble consideración (van Boxtel, en prensa). Por un lado, refiere al imprescindible rol del diálogo en la construcción de conocimiento(Bakhtin, 1986) y subraya que también es un componente esencial de la propia investigación histórica. Por otro, apunta a modelos de enseñanza que ponen en práctica actividades de diálogo en la búsqueda de trabajar sobre la idea de que la historia no es un conocimiento clausurado, sino que está sujeto a reinterpretaciones y a la confrontación de diferentes puntos de vista. ...
... Bakhtin's proposal for a theory of dialogue is also distinct both from structural linguistics, which relates to language as a formal system, and from linguistic idealism, for which language is an act of individual creation (Bakhtin 1981;Vološinov 1973). At the center of Bakhtin's theorization is the utterance, understood as a complex phenomenon, inextricable from the chain of communication in which it is embedded: an utterance is a link in the chain of speech communication, and it cannot be broken off from the preceding links that determine it both from within and from without, giving rise within it to unmediated responsive reactions and dialogic (Bakhtin 1986, 94) reverberations. ...