1st Edition

Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning

By Rachel Pilkington Copyright 2016
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning is invaluable to all those wanting to explore how dialogic processes work and how we facilitate them. Dialogue is an important learning tool and it is by understanding how language affects us and how we use language to encourage, empathise, inquire, argue and persuade that we come closer to understanding processes of change in ourselves and... Read more

1. Why Dialogue? The Role of Dialogue in Education  2. Debate: Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn  3. Towards Meaning-Making: Inquiry, Narrative and Experience  4. The Role of the Significant Other: Facilitation, Scaffolding and Mediation  5. Inclusion, Collaboration and Community  6. Media, Mode and Digital Literacy  7. Researching Voices and Texts  Conclusion  Appendix 1: Transcription Conventions

Biography

Rachel Pilkington is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She was formerly Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University, UK and has over 25 years’ experience in research and teaching.