David Skidmore is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, UK. He has worked in the field for over 20 years and is a member of the editorial board of Language and Education. His research interests include pedagogy, dialogue, inclusive education and prosody.Kyoko Murakami is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests include social remembering, discursive psychology, cultural psychology, cultural historical activity theory, dialogic pedagogy and social and community psychology.

• 1. David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami: Introduction2. David Skidmore: Dialogism and Education       3. Harry Daniels: Vygotsky and Dialogic Pedagogy             4. Michelle Brinn: Bohm and Buber on Dialogue5. David Skidmore: Classroom Discourse: A Survey of Research 6. David Skidmore: Pedagogy and Dialogue         7. Julie Esiyok: Small Group Writing Conference8. Jean Baptiste Kremer: Giving Learners a Voice              9. David Skidmore: Authoritative vs. Internally Persuasive Discourse           10. David Skidmore: Once More with Feeling     11. David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami: Prosody and Shifts in Footing12. Xin Zhao, David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami: Prosodic Chopping 13. David Skidmore and Kyoko Murakami: Claiming our Own Space: Polyphony in Teacher-Student Dialogue           Appendix

Drawing on a wide range of original sources, the contributing authors to this book provide a very informative and scholarly review of the theoretical foundations of dialogical pedagogy and methods for analysing classroom interaction.