What is it about?
This paper is specifically about dialogue, and about the importance that this dialogue be genuine and technical and not 'monologue disguised as dialogue'. Our basis for defining the latter is that glossaries and dictionaries say something to students about key terms, but do not in essence tell them anything meaningful about them. In the paper we are exploring these themes.
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Why is it important?
The paper is important because it questions the relevance and usefulness of traditionally consulted sources of help for students. Specifically, it questions whether such sources do in fact help students or merely act as a placebo to say to us that we have 'ticked that box' and helped them.
Perspectives
This paper is important as it helped us get to grips with some key concepts in dialogue, and made me question the nature of the dialogue I have with students in support classes, i.e. whether it is really helping the students or not.
Dr Nick Pilcher
Edinburgh Napier University
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This page is a summary of: Avoiding Dialogues of Non-discovery through Promoting Dialogues of Discovery, Dialogic Pedagogy A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, March 2015, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh,
DOI: 10.5195/dpj.2015.101.
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