DIALOGUE CIRCLE: A dialogic Approach for the Reconnection of Knowledge and Communicative Action

Abstract

The context in which we live today is paradoxical, as we are in a deeply challenging historical moment in relation to the future of humanity. Socio-environmental issues are increasingly urgent for society to make a commitment to efficient solutions in the direction of reversing the serious problems of destruction of the planet and the impossibility of a dignified life on earth. It all depends on an awareness of all the citizens of the world in order to face this civilizational crisis. However, any path that is pointed out will not succeed if the altered course of society and nature co-evolution is not resumed. This means that only with a deeper understanding of socioecological issues on the part of humanity will it be possible to rediscover the lost link of the harmonious coexistence of Homo sapiens with the other lives that make up the terrestrial globe. This understanding is very present in Agroecology, an emerging science that was born from the criticism of the unsustainable way of using nature's goods and the fragmented way imposed by modern science on knowledge. His option for the dialogue of knowledge, when contemplating traditional and academic knowledge, has been providential to raise the relationship between society and nature to more sustainable levels. This has been done in dialogue spaces such as culture circles and conversation circles. However, with the complexity of the phenomena, other spaces for dialogue have emerged in the field of Agroecology. This is the case of the dialogue circle, complexity based on dialogic action and communicative action.