structures of explicit reasoning, or to simple notions of constructing shared knowledge. They consist more in a divergent exploration of a field of potential perspectives on a topic. Through using this tool participants report that they are stimulated to think more deeply (Wegerif, Ravenscroft and McAlister, 2005). Conclusions The teaching and learning of general thinking skills, especially cre...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

Questioning is one of the critical repertoires in dialogic teaching. Teachers who set classrooms need to be able use questioning effectively. Effective techniques by teachers improve teacher-student instructional dialogues primary school mathematics classrooms. In this study, practices three were analysed their journey incorporate Data gathered through lesson observations, video recordings and ...

the vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). while there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. after look...

Background: Asking questions is an important scientific practice, and students around the world are expected to learn how to ask their own research questions while performing inquiry. In contrast to authentic scientific inquiry, in most simple inquiry tasks that are carried out in schools, the research questions are given to the students. Here, we characterized the teaching and learning of rese...

Speech language therapies in a bilingual dialogical clinic conceive language as interaction and part of each inidividual’s history, enabling deaf people to access Brazilian sign language and the Portuguese language. Purpose: this study aims to discuss the use of Brazilian sign language as the first language for a deaf individual going to a bilingual dialogic clinic from dialogic activities. Met...