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\"The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects\"-- Provided by publisher.

This book presents a wide range of methodological perspectives on researching what teachers think and do in language teaching. It contains chapters by the editors and a leading expert in teacher cognition, as well as eight case studies by new researchers, accompanied by commentaries by internationally known researchers.

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been deployed as a student-centered instructional approach and curriculum design in a wide range of academic fields across the world. The majority of educational research to date has focused on knowledge-based outcomes addressing why PBL is useful. Researchers of PBL are developing a growing interest in qualitative research with a process-driven orientation to examining learning interactions. It is essential to broaden this research base so as to support PBL designs and approaches to leading students into higher-order thinking and a deeper approach to learning. Interactional Research Into Problem-Based Learning explores how students learn in an inquiry-led approach such as PBL. Included are studies that focus on learning in situ and go beyond measuring the outcomes of PBL. The goal is to further expand the PBL research base of qualitative investigations examining the social dimension and lived experience of teaching and learning within the PBL process. A second aim of this volume is to shed light on the methodological aspects of researching PBL, adding new perspectives to the current trends in qualitative studies on PBL. Chapters cover ethnographic approaches to video analysis, introspective protocols such as stimulated recall, and longitudinal qualitative studies using discourse-based analytic approaches. Specifically, this book will further contribute to the current educational research both theoretically and empirically in the following key areas: students’ learning processes in PBL over time and across contexts; the nature of quality interactions in PBL tutorials; the (inter)cultural aspects of learning in PBL; facilitation processes and group dynamics in synchronous and asynchronous face-to-face and blended PBL; and the developing nature of PBL learner identity.

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. Karen Littleton is Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Christine Howe is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. \"A strength of this collection is that elements are included in the text which allow readers to engage fully with the each learning scenario, for example, through data extracts of educational dialogues, learning materials, photographs of learners engaging in dialogue.\" - Jane Andrews, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012 Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Educational Dialogues: Understanding and Promoting Productive Interaction Part 1: Productive Dialogue Introduction to Part 1 1. Knowing and Arguing In A Panel Debate: Speaker Roles and Responsivity to Others Mikaela Åberg, Åsa Mäkitalo and Roger Säljö 2. Peer Dialogue and Cognitive Development: A Two-Way Relationship? Christine Howe 3. Productive Interaction as Agentic Participation in Dialogic Enquiry Kristiina Kumpulainen and Lasse Lipponen 4. Can You Think With Me? The Social and Cognitive Conditions and the Fruits of Learning Valérie Tartas, Aleksandar Baucal and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont Part 2: Understanding Productive Interaction in Specific Curricular Contexts Introduction to Part 2 5. The Role of Discourse in Learning Science Jonathan Osborne and Christine Chin 6. Argumentation and Mathematics Baruch B. Schwarz, Rina Hershkowitz and Naomi Prusak 7. Dialogical Interactions Among Peers in Collaborative Writing Contexts Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, Karen Littleton, Flora Hernández and Mariana Zúñiga 8. Philosophy for Children as Dialogic Teaching Margaret Hardman and Barbara Delafield Part 3: Social Context Introduction to Part 3 9. More Helpful as Problem than Solution: Some Implications of Situating Dialogue in Classrooms Adam Lefstein 10. Dialogue Enhancement in Classrooms: Towards a Relational Approach for Group Working Peter Kutnick and Jennifer Colwell 11. Gender, Collaboration and Children’s Learning Patrick J. Leman 12. Change in Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction Ben Rampton and Roxy Harris Part 4: Promoting Productive Educational Dialogues Introduction to Part 4 13. The Significance of Educational Dialogues Between Primary School Children Karen Littleton and Neil Mercer 14. Teaching and Learning Disciplinary Knowledge: Developing the Dialogic Space for an Answer When There Isn’t Even a Question Phil Scott, Jaume Ametller, Eduardo Mortimer and Jonathan Emberton 15. Dialogue and Teaching Thinking With Technology: Opening, Expanding and Deepening The ‘Inter-Face’ Rupert Wegerif 16. Collaborative Learning of Computer Science Concepts R. Keith Sawyer and Kenneth J. Goldman

Draws on the most prominent writing of Neil Mercer, covering his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work on the role of talk in education, and on the relationship between spoken language and cognition. The text explores key themes, relating theoretical ideas to research evidence and to practical educational situations that improve children's lives. Offering students and researchers a clear, accessible and up-to-date account of a sociocultural perspective on the relationship between spoken language and cognition, it explains one of the key themes in Neil Mercer's work - that humans have uniquely evolved the capacity to think together, or 'interthink'. Offering a crucial insight into the work of Neil Mercer, this selection showcases why his approach has become the dominant paradigm in educational research, and why it is increasingly influential in the psychology of teaching and learning.

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as task type, mode of interaction, and social relationships on learners' interactional behaviors and language development in this unique and pedagogically powerful learning context. To examine these issues, contributors employed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs as well as cognitive, social, and sociocognitive theoretical frameworks. The majority of the studies are classroom based and were conducted in a rich array of settings covering five continents and encompassing a wide range of learner L1s and target languages. These settings include second and foreign language classrooms from primary to university level, content-based programs, online contexts, and after-school programs. To span the divide between research and practice, each study includes a section suggesting pedagogical implications.

Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions or the ways in which these interactions are shaped by wider social processes. This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in teaching-learning interactions in higher education. In considering four alternative perspectives, it examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures. It concludes by examining the conceptual and methodological implications of these analyses of teaching-learning interactions and provides the reader with an invaluable guide to alternative ways of conceptualising and researching teaching and learning in higher education.