Dialogic Education and Technology Expanding the Space of Learning /

• Main Author: Wegerif, Rupert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning ; 7
• Subjects: Education.; Education > Data processing.; Educational technology.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Technology.; Computers and Education.; Sociology of Education.

Dialogic Education and Technology is about using new technology to draw people into the kind of dialogues which take them beyond themselves into learning, thinking and creativity. The program of research reported in this book reveals key characteristics of learning dialogues and demonstrates ways in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Challenge of the Changing Chronotope
• Dialogic: Opening a Space
• Mediation: From Dialectic to Dialogic
• Reason: Dialogic as a Direction
• Creativity: Playful Reflective Dialogue in Classrooms
• Teaching Thinking: Controversies and Questions
• Teaching Thinking: Metaphors and Taxonomies
• Teaching Thinking with Information and Communications Technology
• Talk Around Computers: Expanding the Space of Reflection
• Computers Supporting Dialogue: Breaking Out of the Frame
• Dialogues Online: Crossing a Threshold
• Technology, Education and Enlightenment.