The Curriculum of the Post-method Era: Curriculum Situated Within Dialogue

Alieh Nasrollahi Mouziraji

Abstract:

The word dialogue and its different interpretations lend themselves well to translating the three principles of the post-method pedagogy promulgated by Kumaravadivelu. This paper aims to propose that the post-method curriculum must be one in which the key concepts are redefined dialogically. Dialogic education means teaching for dialogue as well as teaching through dialogue. In such a dialogic curriculum, an urgent need is felt for authentic, critical, and reflective dialogue at all levels of education, within the classroom walls and beyond that. It has been represented that the post-method curriculum is transformatory and emancipatory. However, the road to this transformation passes through transaction and dialogic deconstruction and reconstruction. The post-method curriculum must be developed through dialogic interaction between theorists and practitioners.