Final report for the project Developing the Seminar for Postgraduate Students: A Cross-Discinplinary Approach (021/F03)

Abstract

The seminar is the most common teaching format of the academy. It is an excellent opportunity for students to appropriate knowledge by entering a dialogue with the texts, the teachers and each other. However, we know that many academic teachers find it difficult to make seminars meaningful to themselves and their students. For fear that their seminars will turn into dreary mini-lectures, they might run in the opposite direction and risk landing in chatty and unstructured discussions without depth, and vice versa. We think there is a need for training seminar pedagogic at the university. In our project, we have tried to develop such an approach. With inspiration from a rhetorical view of dialogue and from a perspectivist conception of knowledge, we have attempted some contributions to a repertory of theoretical and practical approaches to a pedagogic for sensitive dialogical improvisation.