This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher-student communication, the dialogic approach is more egalitarian and focuses on the discourse exchange between the parties. Authors explore connections between dialogic pedagogy and sociocultural learning theory, and argue that dialogic interaction between teacher and learners is vital if instruction is to lead to cognitive development. The book also presents prosody as a critical resource for understanding between teachers and students, and includes some of the first empirical studies of speech prosody in classroom discourse.

1.Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction /Kyoko Murakami -- Freire's Theory of Dialogic Pedagogy -- What is Dialogism? -- Prosody -- The Scope of the Book -- Overview of the Book -- 2.Dialogism and Education / David Skidmore -- Dialogue and Creativity -- Speech and Consciousness -- Different-languagedness: Heteroglossia -- Many-voicedness: Polyphony -- Dialogism and Education -- 3.Vygotsky and Dialogic Pedagogy / Harry Daniels -- Dialectical or Dialogic -- Vygotsky and Bakhtin -- Developmental Teaching -- Conclusion -- 4.The Conceptions of `Dialogue' Offered by Bohm and Buber: A Critical Review / Michelle Brinn -- Bohm's On Dialogue (1996) -- Buber's Between Man and Man (1947) -- Conclusions -- 5.Classroom Discourse: A Survey of Research / David Skidmore -- The Essential Teaching Exchange -- Exploratory Talk in Small Groups -- The Lesson as a Speech Event -- Transformational Solutions to the Dilemma of Academic Language. 6.Pedagogy and Dialogue / David Skidmore -- Shaping the Agenda of Classroom Discourse -- Dialogic Instruction -- Dialogic Enquiry -- Dialogic Teaching -- The Affective Conditions for Learning -- 7.The Small Group Writing Conference as a Dialogic Model of Feedback / Julie Margaret Esiyok -- Introduction -- Dialogic Classroom Talk -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Summary -- Appendix -- 7.1 Frequency of Active and Dialogic Indicators and Idea Development -- 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 -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Context -- Methodology -- Analysis and Discussion of Data -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- 9.Authoritative Versus Internally Persuasive Discourse / David Skidmore -- The Source of the Transcripts -- Talk About Texts in the Classroom -- From Pedagogical Dialogue to Dialogic Pedagogy. 10.Once More With Feeling: Utterance and Social Structure / David Skidmore -- The Profit of Distinction -- The Polyphonic Utterance -- Ideologeme: The Inflected Sign -- Further and Further Apart: Rehearsed Improvisation -- Utterance, Genre and Society -- 11.How Prosody Marks Shifts in Footing in Classroom Discourse / Kyoko Murakami -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions: The Implications of Prosodic Analysis for Our Understanding of Classroom Discourse -- 12.Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure / Kyoko Murakami -- Introduction -- Prosody in Classroom Interaction -- Scaffolding -- Methodology -- Data Analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- 13.Claiming Our Own Space: Polyphony in Teacher -- Student Dialogue / Kyoko Murakami -- Talk and Learning -- The Essential Teaching Exchange. `Mother, Any Distance Greater Than a Single Span': An Excerpt From an Episode of Plenary Discussion -- Discourse Analysis: A Teaching Exchange -- `He Wants His Own Space': Analysis of Teacher -- Student Dialogue Using CA Notation -- Claiming Our Own Space: Polyphonic Dialogue.