Learning conversations: teacher researchers evaluating dialogic strategies in early years settings

Toward a dialogic theory of learning: Bakhtin's contribution to understanding learning in settings of collaboration

I propose here a new theoretical framework for understanding learning as a socially-grounded phenomenon based the writings of the Russian philologist, M. M. Bakhtin. Bakhtin's writings on the dialogic nature of all texts provide the basis for a new view of language, knowledge, and learning. From this perspective, learning is seen as the process of multiple voices coming into contact, both withi...

Collaborative teacher learning in different primary school settings

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Consumer-to-Consumer Conversations in Service Settings

This article contributes, in two ways, to our understanding of the nature, scope, and significance of conversations between strangers in service environments. First, a framework is introduced that provides both academics and practitioners with a summary of the key issues associated with the stimuli, manifestations, and consequences of such conversations. Second, the article reports a market-ori...

From dialogic to trialogic learning

This poster looks at dialogic learning in academic practice with the specific aim of the collaborative processing of texts. In identifying some shortcomings of these dialogic practices it introduces the notion of trialogic learning, and presents the results from a comparative study on the affordances of different asynchronous discussion tools to support a more content-oriented and trialogic for...

The early years. Evaluating Montessori education.