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A Participative Webinar with Tzofnat Peleg-Baker
Tzofnat Peleg-Baker
Is democracy sufficient without dialogue? Tzofnat Peleg-Baker worked in Israeli Democratic Schools where students and staff have equal votes, and in Dialogic Schools shaped by Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy. She questions whether individualism alone can transform relationships.
Tzofnat Peleg-Baker is a scholar-practitioner studying the cultural, social, and psychological dynamics underlying relationship transformation and conflict. Her experience comes from Israeli Democratic Schools, where students and staff members have equal votes on decision-making and conflict resolution, based on the assumption that children experiencing democracy grow into democratic adults. She also worked in Dialogic Schools influenced by Martin Buber's I-Thou framework, where students did reflective work on self-other relations with focus on transforming how they perceived relationships rather than individual self-development. Peleg-Baker raises a provocative question: is democracy, with its focus on individualism, sufficient without dialogic interaction? Equal votes matter, but do they change how people perceive others as partners in co-creating reality? In this webinar, cohosts Nancy Dixon and Linda Ellinor interview Peleg-Baker about her thinking before participants move into small groups for reflection on what this means for their own dialogue practice.
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