Building on Robin Alexander's landmark Towards Dialogic Teaching,
this book shows how and why the dialogic approach has a positive
impact on student engagement and learning. It sets out the
evidence, examines the underpinning ideas and issues, and offers
guidance and resources for the planning, implementation and review
of effective dialogic teaching in a wide range of educational
settings. Dialogic teaching harnesses the power of talk to engage
students' interest, stimulate their thinking, advance their
understanding, expand their ideas and build and evaluate argument,
empowering them for lifelong learning and for social and democratic
engagement. Drawing on extensive published research as well as the
high-profile, 5000-student trial and independent evaluation of
Alexander's distinctive approach to dialogic teaching in action,
this book: Presents the case for treating talk as not merely
incidental to teaching and learning but as an essential tool of
education whose exploitation and development require understanding
and skill; Explores questions of definition and conceptualisation
in the realms of dialogue, argumentation and dialogic teaching,
revealing the similarities and differences between the main
approaches; Discusses evidence that has enriched the debate about
classroom talk in relation to oracy, argumentation, student voice
and philosophy for children as well as dialogic teaching itself;
Identifies what it is about dialogic teaching that makes a
difference to students' thinking, learning and understanding;
Presents the author's rationale and framework for dialogic
teaching, now completely revised and much expanded; Proposes a
professional development strategy for making dialogic teaching
happen which, like the framework, has been successfully trialled in
schools; Lists resources from others working in the field to
support further study and development; Includes an extensive
bibliography. Robin Alexander's A Dialogic Teaching Companion, like
its popular predecessor Towards Dialogic Teaching, aims to support
the work of all those who are interested in the quality of teaching
and learning, but especially trainee and serving teachers, teacher
educators, school leaders and researchers.
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