Educational Dialogues

Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Educational Dialogues: Understanding and Promoting Productive Interaction Part 1: Productive Dialogue Introduction to Part 1 1. Knowing and Arguing In A Panel Debate: Speaker Roles and Responsivity to Others Mikaela Aberg, Asa Maekitalo and Roger Saeljoe 2. Peer Dialogue and Cognitive Development: A Two-Way Relationship? Christine Howe 3. Productive Interaction as Agentic Participation in Dialogic Enquiry Kristiina Kumpulainen and Lasse Lipponen 4. Can You Think With Me? The Social and Cognitive Conditions and the Fruits of Learning Valerie Tartas, Aleksandar Baucal and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont Part 2: Understanding Productive Interaction in Specific Curricular Contexts Introduction to Part 2 5. The Role of Discourse in Learning Science Jonathan Osborne and Christine Chin 6. Argumentation and Mathematics Baruch B. Schwarz, Rina Hershkowitz and Naomi Prusak 7. Dialogical Interactions Among Peers in Collaborative Writing Contexts Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, Karen Littleton, Flora Hernandez and Mariana Zuniga 8. Philosophy for Children as Dialogic Teaching Margaret Hardman and Barbara Delafield Part 3: Social Context Introduction to Part 3 9. More Helpful as Problem than Solution: Some Implications of Situating Dialogue in Classrooms Adam Lefstein 10. Dialogue Enhancement in Classrooms: Towards a Relational Approach for Group Working Peter Kutnick and Jennifer Colwell 11. Gender, Collaboration and Children's Learning Patrick J. Leman 12. Change in Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction Ben Rampton and Roxy Harris Part 4: Promoting Productive Educational Dialogues Introduction to Part 4 13. The Significance of Educational Dialogues Between Primary School Children Karen Littleton and Neil Mercer 14. Teaching and Learning Disciplinary Knowledge: Developing the Dialogic Space for an Answer When There Isn't Even a Question Phil Scott, Jaume Ametller, Eduardo Mortimer and Jonathan Emberton 15. Dialogue and Teaching Thinking With Technology: Opening, Expanding and Deepening The 'Inter-Face' Rupert Wegerif 16. Collaborative Learning of Computer Science Concepts R. Keith Sawyer and Kenneth J. Goldman