Vol. 19 No. 33 (2026): Dialogue, learning and materiality

Editor: Thorkild Hanghøj, thorkild@ikp.aau.dk, Aalborg University
Editor: Tina Høegh, thoegh@sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark
Editor: Jens Jørgen Hansen, jjh@sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark

In this thematic issue of LOM, we focus on links between learning and materiality from a dialogical perspective. Recent research – including previous LOM issues – shows that it is important to shed light on links between learning and materiality, here understood as people's perception of and use of digital and analog tools. Neither the pedagogical nor the material should take precedence, as both aspects are central.

At the same time, this theme issue highlights the importance of dialogic aspects in relation to learning and technology. In everyday speech, dialogue means conversation or communication. Much of the research into dialogic teaching draws on Bakhtin's dialogic philosophy, which has been interpreted and applied in an educational context. For Bakhtin, dialogue can be understood as an ontological basic condition, as mutual relations between people and as communication. Similarly, Wegerif argues that the dialogic has both epistemological and ontological meanings in an educational context. That is, it deals with both knowledge construction and participation possibilities.