Educational Dialogues: Understanding and Promoting Productive interaction

by Littleton; Karen

• ISBN13: 9780415462167
• ISBN10: 0415462169
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135188382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Educational Dialoguesprovides a clear, accessible and well-illustrated case for the importance of dialogue and its significance for learning and teaching. The contributors characterise the nature of productive dialogues, to specify the conditions and pedagogic contexts within which such dialogues can most effectively be resourced and promoted. Drawing upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives, this collection examines: theoretical frameworks for understanding teaching and learning dialogues teacher-student and student-student interaction in the curricular contexts of mathematics, literacy, science, ICT and philosophy the social contexts supporting productive dialogues implications for pedagogic design and classroom practice. Bringing together contributions from a wide range of internationally renowned researchers, this book will form essential reading for all those concerned with the use of dialogue in educational contexts.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Productive dialogue	p. 8
Introduction	p. 9
Knowing and arguing in a panel debate: speaker roles and responsivity to others	p. 13
Peer dialogue and cognitive development: a two-way relationship?	p. 32
Productive interaction as agentic participation in dialogic enquiry	p. 48
Can you think with me? The social and cognitive conditions and the fruits of learning	p. 64
Understanding productive interaction in specific curricular contexts	p. 83
Introduction	p. 84
The role of discourse in learning science	p. 88
Argumentation and mathematics	p. 103
Dialogical interactions among peers in collaborative writing contexts	p. 128
Philosophy for Children as dialogic teaching	p. 149
Social context	p. 165
Introduction	p. 166
More helpful as problem than solution: some implications of situating dialogue in classrooms	p. 170
Dialogue enhancement in classrooms: towards a relational approach for group working	p. 192
Gender, collaboration and children's learning	p. 216
Change in urban classroom culture and interaction	p. 240
Promoting productive educational dialogues	p. 265
Introduction	p. 266
The significance of educational dialogues between primary school children	p. 271
Teaching and learning disciplinary knowledge: developing the dialogic space for an answer when there isn't even a question	p. 289
Dialogue and teaching thinking with technology: opening, expanding and deepening the 'inter-face'	p. 304
Collaborative learning of computer science concepts	p. 323
Index	p. 350
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