Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning

Published by Multilingual Matters 2016

Dialogic Pedagogy

The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning

Edited by: David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

In the series New Perspectives on Language and Education

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096220

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About this book

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism and explains its importance in teaching and learning. The authors present the core concepts of dialogism as a social theory of language and consider the implications of these ideas for pedagogy.

Author / Editor information

Skidmore David :

David Skidmore is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, UK. He has worked in the field for over 20 years and is a member of the editorial board of Language and Education. His research interests include pedagaogy, dialogue, inclusive education and prosody.

Murakami Kyoko :

Kyoko Murakami is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests include social remembering, discursive psychology, cultural psychology, cultural historical activity theory, dialogic pedagogy and social and community psychology.

David Skidmore is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, UK. He has worked in the field for over 20 years and is a member of the editorial board of Language and Education. His research interests include pedagogy, dialogue, inclusive education and prosody.

Kyoko Murakami is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests include social remembering, discursive psychology, cultural psychology, cultural historical activity theory, dialogic pedagogy and social and community psychology.

Reviews

Jose Ignacio Aguilar Río, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University, France:

Skidmore and Muramaki’s edited volume is an interesting work on the necessity for teachers to move towards more dialogical pedagogies, which allow for a redistribution of the shared responsibilities within institutional learning situations (...) the theories reviewed, the data analysed and the practices presented, will certainly appeal to| scholars, curriculum developers, language teaching practitioners, teachers’ educators and pre-service language teachers.

If you’re looking for evidence of the importance of talk in student learning then this is the book for you. Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical sources, it pays close attention to the development of a dialogic pedagogy in teacher-student and student-to-student interactions. Most importantly it reminds us of the importance of prosody, or tone of voice, to the achievement of shared understanding in teacher-student and peer-to-peer interaction.

This book puts language as experienced dialogical activity at the center of education. The interplay of improvisation and careful structuring allowing for the openness students and teachers need is beautifully shown. This book is a gift for all scholars and practitioners seeking an alternative approach to learning, development and language itself.

Drawing on a wide range of original sources, the contributing authors to this book provide a very informative and scholarly review of the theoretical foundations of dialogical pedagogy and methods for analysing classroom interaction.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Dialogism and Education David Skidmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Vygotsky and Dialogic Pedagogy Harry Daniels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. The Conceptions of ‘Dialogue’ Offered by Bohm and Buber: A Critical Review Michelle Brinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
5. Classroom Discourse: A Survey of Research David Skidmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6. Pedagogy and Dialogue David Skidmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7. The Small Group Writing Conference as a Dialogic Model of Feedback Julie Margaret Esiyok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
8. Giving Learners a Voice: A Study of the Dialogic ‘Quality’ of Three Episodes of Teacher–Learner Talk-in-interaction in a Language Classroom Jean Baptiste Kremer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
9. Authoritative Versus Internally Persuasive Discourse David Skidmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
10. Once More With Feeling: Utterance and Social Structure David Skidmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
11. How Prosody Marks Shifts in Footing in Classroom Discourse David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
12. Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure Xin Zhao, David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
13. Claiming Our Own Space: Polyphony in Teacher–Student Dialogue David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Appendix: Conversation Analysis Conventions Used for Data Transcription Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Dialogue; Pedagogy; Prosody; Literacy; Language development; Educational psychology; Dialogism; Language education; Discourse analysis; Dialogic pedagogy; Sociocultural learning theory

eBook

Published: August 18, 2016
ISBN: 9781783096220