Purpose: This study aimed to investigate contribution of a professional development program committed providing quality training support dialogic talk student active participation. Indicators participation, in the context this study, were speaking duration teacher compared student, number different ideas students emerging classroom milieu, answering per question asked by teacher, and rate stude...

This paper brings a Vygotskian socio-cultural framework to young children’s drawing processes. Using examples of children drawing in a year one classroom I will examine the dialogic engagement with drawing. Drawing dialogues allowed these children to move from spontaneous concepts to more scientific concepts and played an important role in promoting higher mental functions. I will suggest that ...

Purpose of the paper: The paper advocates a Darwinian explanation of the process of firm transformation. Existing, but generally opposing views related to the selection – adaptation debates are united to consider the dialogic nature of both approaches. It is argued that a Darwinian approach, as opposed to a neo-Darwinian or Lamarckian approach provides the means to scale the sides of a debate t...