Afterword

Abstract

This chapter brings the book to a close with a brief afterword reflecting on the place of dialogue in the social and the musical, returning always to John Dewey as we think through listening that challenges and moves beyond one-way engagements to genuine dialogue. Vivian Gussin Paley, an early childhood educator, for whom issues of exclusion were always foremost in her mind, helps frame a final consideration of the ways our acts of “intervention” often prevent the affordance of genuine dialogue and thus, voice. Socially just engagements, then, are the new beginnings and pedagogical encounters in which we listen and attend in ways that vow humility, recognition, and agency.