ABSTRACT
Conversations are the way we begin learning about the world. From our first moments as babies, we interact with our parents and caregivers and our gestures, sounds, and facial expressions are considered to be meaningful. This focus on conversation, and attention to both sounds and gestures, reveals the importance we place on conversation for understanding each other. From birth through to adulthood, we quickly learn how to engage in all sorts of conversations with family, friends, teachers, and bosses and these conversations have lots of purposes. We cement friendships, solve problems, have arguments, and, importantly, we can all recall conversations that have taught us something. In fact, education itself can be considered a conversational process, both with others and internally, with ourselves.
