Dialogic Inquiry - Towards a Socio-Cultural Practice and Theory of Education

List of contents

Conventions of transcription; Introduction; Part I. Establishing the Theoretical Framework: 1. The complementary contributions of Halliday and Vygotsky to a 'language-based theory of learning'; 2. In search of knowledge; 3. Discourse and knowing in the classroom; Part II. Discourse, Learning, and Teaching: 4. Text, talk, and inquiry: schooling as semiotic apprenticeship; 5. Putting a tool to different uses: a reevalution of the IRF sequence; 6. From guessing to predicting: progressive discourse in the learning and teaching of science; 7. Using the tool-kit of discourse in the activity of learning and teaching; 8. Making meaning with text: a genetic approach to the mediating role of writing; Part III. Learning and Teaching in the ZPD: 9. On learning with and from our students; 10. The zone of proximal development and its implications for learning and teaching ; Appendices; References; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: C. Gordon Wells, Gordon Wells
• Assisted by: Roy Pea (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521631334
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63133-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 785 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system