Murakami Kyoko - Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning

Dialogic Pedagogy

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION

Series Editors : Professor Viv Edwards, University of Reading , Reading , UK and Professor Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Two decades of research and development in language and literacy education have yielded a broad, multidisciplinary focus. Yet education systems face constant economic and technological change, with attendant issues of identity and power, community and culture. This series will feature critical and interpretive, disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives on teaching and learning, language and literacy in new times.

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Dialogic Pedagogy

The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning

Edited by

David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

MULTILINGUAL MATTERS

Bristol Buffalo Toronto

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Skidmore, David (Language teacher) editor. | Murakami, Kyoko, editor.

Title: Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning/Edited by David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami.

Description: Bristol; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016022322| ISBN 9781783096213 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783096220 (pdf) | ISBN 9781783096237 (epub) | ISBN 9781783096244 (kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: Dialogue analysis. | Language and languagesStudy and teaching. | Language teachersPsychological aspects. | Conversation analysis. | Pedagogical content knowledge. | Dialogism (Literary analysis)

Classification: LCC P95.455.D473 2016 | DDC 401/.4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022322

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ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-621-3 (hbk)

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Contents

David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

David Skidmore

Harry Daniels

Michelle Brinn

David Skidmore

David Skidmore

Julie Margaret Esiyok

Jean Baptiste Kremer

David Skidmore

David Skidmore

David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

Xin Zhao, David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami

Dr Michelle Brinn has worked in the field of early years education for 25 years. Currently an Assistant Leader of Learning in a large international school in Bangkok, she has taught and lectured in Poland, Malaysia, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Her interest in dialogue arose due to a desire to enhance communication between home and school within international education, wherein vastly different expectations regarding learning may exist. This desire prompted a doctoral research project with the University of Bath, the initial stages of which are discussed within this chapter.

Professor Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. He has directed research for more than 40 projects funded by ESRC, various central and local government sources, The Lottery, The Nuffield Foundation and the EU. Much of his recent research draws on cultural historical and activity theory approaches to learning and organisational change, focusing on professional learning, processes of social exclusion and practices of collaboration in a variety of educational, medical and emergency settings. He is also: Adjunct Professor, Centre for Learning Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; Research Professor, Centre for Human Activity Theory, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan; and Research Professor in Cultural Historical Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. His CV witnesses an extensive publication list including a series of internationally acclaimed books concerned with sociocultural psychology.

Julie Esiyok is a classroom teacher and a member of her schools Middle Leadership Team. She holds a BA (hons) in Linguistics, a Postgraduate Certificate of Education and a MA in Education from the University of Bath. Her school-based research has so far focused on feedback through writing conferences, wait time and teacher-to-teacher coaching. She is keen to explore how language and silence can be used effectively in schools to improve teaching and learning.

Jean Baptiste Kremer has a BA in English and German from the University of Hull, and qualified as an English teacher in Luxembourg in 1982. In 1990 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach French in Wisconsin, USA for a year. From 2005 to 2015 he led the English Teacher Education programme at the University of Luxembourg. After graduating with a Masters degree in Education from the University of Bath in 2014, he became general coordinator of teacher education in Luxembourg. He is currently working for the Luxembourg Ministry of Education.

Dr Kyoko Murakami is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. Her research involves examining language use and social relations configured and reconfigured in social and cultural practices. It draws on discourse analysis, discursive psychology and cultural psychology and related areas in the social sciences. The topics of her recent publications include the discursive psychology of remembering and reconciliation (2012), an ethnography of battlefield and prison camp pilgrimages by British veterans (2014), and family reminiscence as memory practice (2016). With her educational research colleagues, Dr Murakami explores dialogic spaces in both formal and non-formal education settings group work in higher education and the experiences of international students in the internationalisation initiative of a Danish university.

Dr David Skidmore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. He has published widely in the fields of dialogic pedagogy and inclusive education, has held research grants from the ESRC and other bodies, and has supervised a number of doctoral studies in these areas.

Dr Xin Zhao is a Teaching Associate at the Information School at the University of Sheffield. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. Her PhD research investigates the functions of conversational prosody of classroom talk-in-interaction in the field of second language learning. Her research interests include dialogic pedagogy, sociocultural theory and internationalisation.