Educational Dialogues

Educational Dialogues
Author: Karen Littleton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135188386

Educational Dialogues provides a clear, accessible and well-illustrated case for the importance of dialogue and its significance for learning and teaching. The contributors characterise the nature of productive dialogues, to specify the conditions and pedagogic contexts within which such dialogues can most effectively be resourced and promoted. Drawing upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives, this collection examines: theoretical frameworks for understanding teaching and learning dialogues teacher-student and student-student interaction in the curricular contexts of mathematics, literacy, science, ICT and philosophy the social contexts supporting productive dialogues implications for pedagogic design and classroom practice. Bringing together contributions from a wide range of internationally renowned researchers, this book will form essential reading for all those concerned with the use of dialogue in educational contexts.

Educational Dialogues

Educational Dialogues
Author: Karen Littleton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135188394

Presents an illustrated case for the importance of dialogue and its role in developing non-passive interactive learning.

Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education

Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education
Author: Richard Race
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319605585

This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe, including fanaticism, chauvinistic nationalism, religious fundamentalism and racism. The contributors to this book explore the necessity of sustained dialogue within the wider social and political sciences alongside in national and international politics, where more multicultural voices need to be heard in order to make progress. The book builds on existing evidence and literature to advocate in favour of this movement, and highlights how important and significant multiculturalism and multicultural education remains. It will be essential reading for students and academics working in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in social justice and multiculturalism.

Challenging Learning Through Dialogue (International Edition)

Challenging Learning Through Dialogue (International Edition)
Author: James Nottingham
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 150637686X

Dialogue is one of the best vehicles for learning how to think, how to be reasonable, how to make moral decisions and how to understand another person's point of view. It is supremely flexible, instructional, collaborative, and rigorous. At its very best, dialogue is one of the best ways for participants to learn good habits of thinking. There is also substantial evidence that teachers currently talk too much in classes, often only waiting .8 seconds after asking a question before jumping in with the answer if a student doesn't quickly volunteer. This book guides teachers through the different types of dialogue and how they can be used to enhance students' learning.

Teaching Transformation

Teaching Transformation
Author: A. Keating
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230604986

Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical 'race' studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate and change students' resistance to social-justice issues. It offers a holistic approach to theory and practice.

Dialogue, Argumentation and Education

Dialogue, Argumentation and Education
Author: Baruch B. Schwarz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107141818

This book presents the historical, theoretical and empirical foundations of educational practices involving dialogue and argumentation.

Academic Conversations

Academic Conversations
Author: Jeff Zwiers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003843298

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Critical Issues in Education

Critical Issues in Education
Author: Jack L. Nelson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Designed to be used in courses that examine relevant pro-and-con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on the issues, this text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. It includes research and scholarship, discussion suggestions, and bibliographic references.

The Theory of Educational Technology

The Theory of Educational Technology
Author: Rupert Wegerif
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003810470

Educational technology is controversial – some see it as essential to providing free global learning, others view it as a dangerous distraction that undermines good education. In both instances, most theories that have previously been applied to educational technology do not account for the distinctive nature and vast potential of technology. This book addresses this issue, exploring how education has been bound up with technology from the beginning, and recognising that educational aims have already been shaped by technologies. Offering a ‘dialogic’ theory of educational technology, Rupert Wegerif and Louis Major respond to contemporary challenges to education within this book, including, but not limited to, climate change, misinformation on the internet and the impact of Artificial Intelligence. Chapters introduce, discuss, and contextualise key theories and illustrate through case studies their uses within a diverse range of educational contexts, spanning from primary education to adult lifelong learning. Each chapter also concludes with a short summary, demonstrating how these theories translate to practical implications for design. A fascinating response to current developments in educational technology, this is a crucial read for all involved in creating, researching or making decisions about the use of technologies within educational contexts.

Complexity and Values in Nurse Education

Complexity and Values in Nurse Education
Author: Martin Lipscomb
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1000590364

This work explores the interplay of complexity and values in nurse education from a variety of vantages. Contributors, who come from a range of international and disciplinary backgrounds, critically engage important and problematic topics that are under-investigated elsewhere. Taking an innovative approach each chapter is followed by one or more responses and, on occasion, a reply to responses. This novel dialogic feature of the work tests, animates, and enriches the arguments being presented. Thought-provoking, challenging and occasionally rumbustious in tone, this volume has something to say to both nurse educators (who may find cherished practices questioned) and students. Given the breadth and nature of subjects covered, the book will also appeal to anyone concerned about and interested in nursing’s professional development/trajectory.