Learning Together : Fostering Communities of Dialogic Inquiry / by Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, Ana Luisa Rubio-Jimenez, Ana Laura Trigo-Clapés.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia.

Series:

Behavioral Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational psychology.

Education.

Children.

Developmental psychology.

Educational Psychology.

Childhood Education.

Developmental Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Educational Psychology.

Childhood Education.

Developmental Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

Solidly grounded in theory and empirical evidence, this book presents a novel methodological framework for fostering Communities of Dialogic Inquiry in primary education called Learning Together. These communities create collaborative networks of distributed cognition among school, university, and local community members to equip “apprentices” with a firm scientific foundation, complemented by a robust humanistic citizenship culture, enabling their participation in socioscientific practices in an informed, critical, responsible and inclusive fashion. Learning Together provides concrete, articulated, and richly illustrated teaching-learning strategies for cultivating these communities in diverse school and community settings. “In this book, the authors make a distinctive, strong and important contribution to our understanding of how education can be made most productive. They draw on a wealth of schools-based research, including their own, to link what is known about the ways humans learn and what can and should happen in classrooms. It should help to promote a more accurate conception of education as a social, cultural, communicative activity, rather than a process whereby teachers simply transmit knowledge to students. I hope it is read by teachers, researchers and others involved in education everywhere”. – Neil Mercer, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK “For the authors of this fascinating and timely volume, communities of dialogic inquiry have two main aims: fostering skills that support a key human activity (learning for dialogue) and applying those skills in knowledge acquisition (learning through dialogue). The authors ground those aims in a novel yet convincing interpretation of sociocultural theory: the insightful and wide-ranging literature review that underpins their approach will be appreciated by researchers and practitioners alike. At the same time, the volume goes far beyond theory: it concludes with case studies, which indicate in detail how dialogic inquiry can be embedded in classrooms”. – Christine Howe, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.

Contents:

Part I Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning and Development

Chapter 1: The situated nature of human activity

Chapter 2: Analysing human interaction in sociocultural contexts

Chapter 3: Understanding and Enhancing Learning and Development

Part II Dialogic Interactions and Multiliteracies as Social Practices

Chapter 4: The significance of promoting dialogic interactions in educational contexts

Chapter 5: Multiliteracies as dialogic meaning-making social practices

Chapter 6: Promoting apprentices’ participation in socioscientific practices through dialogic inquiry

Part III Educational Implications: Cultivating Communities of Dialogic Inquiry

Chapter 7: Learning Together: A methodological framework for cultivating Communities of Dialogic Inquiry

Chapter 8: Putting it all into action: illustrating the implementation of Inquire in an educational setting

Chapter 9: Enhancing dialogic inquiry in the context of implementing Inquire

Chapter 10: Afterword: Origins of Learning Together and a reflection on its potential.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia Learning Together

ISBN:

9783032060181

OCLC:

1548323415