Abstract Initial Teacher Education has been informed by diverse perspectives in recent
years; while the debates around what constitutes teacher quality and adequate …

Dialogic frameworks make visible the nature of social interaction providing insights into the
formation of epistemic awareness. The conscious design of classroom interaction as both …

Pauline Jones a and Jennifer Hammond b aFaculty of social sciences, university of
Wollongong, Wollongong, australia; bFaculty of arts and social sciences, university of …

This article examines one of the most fundamental, yet taken-for-granted, activities that goes
in classrooms-the talk and interaction that happens between teachers and students in their …

This chapter is about work in progress exploring the relevance of a dialogic pedagogy to
schools in both the developed and developing world. Within the teacher development …

In this thesis I present an investigation of the experiences of 14 beginning primary school
teachers in their first year of teaching. Using an inductive qualitative methodology, data was …

This chapter presents the need to adopt a “dialogic approach” for understanding the
development of literacy in primary school children in a comprehensive and novel fashion. It …

Abstract The study “Researching Dialogic Pedagogies for Literacy Learning across the
Primary Years” funded by The Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) …

Background The theory and practice divide is a persistent conundrum in teacher education.
Moreover, foundation phase literacy teacher education is no exception because such …

The last twenty-five years have seen a number of changes of great significance in our
thinking about learning and teaching. Thanks, in large measure, to the work of James Moffett …