Conversation analysis? Is this in linguistics, or in something else?
Anyway, having worked with (and facilitated) small-group dialogues focusing on issues of race and racism, I would say that no, actually, the kind of listening she's talking about is neither a passive thing, nor is it a therapeutic thing. (Though often therapeutic sorts of things happen in this kind of dialogue.)
It should be active, it should be grappling with questions -- it's just that a lot of people don't learn how to be that active a listener in any sort of conversation. (Nor do they learn how to get past their own defensiveness when questions of race and racism turn up.)
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Date: 2006-06-04 05:13 pm (UTC)Anyway, having worked with (and facilitated) small-group dialogues focusing on issues of race and racism, I would say that no, actually, the kind of listening she's talking about is neither a passive thing, nor is it a therapeutic thing. (Though often therapeutic sorts of things happen in this kind of dialogue.)
It should be active, it should be grappling with questions -- it's just that a lot of people don't learn how to be that active a listener in any sort of conversation. (Nor do they learn how to get past their own defensiveness when questions of race and racism turn up.)