If you’re reading this and grew up going to Western schools, you might remember your teachers following this basic formula: Explain a subject from the blackboard, ask the kids questions that test ...

Arvan argues that properly employed, course management systems can change the model for teaching and learning in ways that engage students more and increase their learning. He offers the "dialogic ...

In most classrooms, teaching involves a monologic, recitative transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the students, which often undermines the role of the students’ experiences and knowledge in the ...

Dialogic approaches in classroom discourse foreground the reciprocal exchange of ideas between teachers and students, drawing on sociocultural theories that regard language as both a tool for thought ...