ABSTRACT
Dialogic education is an approach to pedagogy and curriculum which emphasises the role and importance of dialogue and critically examines how it can best be created and sustained. Dialogic education has been seen as a means for making connections between subject disciplines, encouraging active and democratic citizenship and enabling people to live together more peacefully. The concept of ‘dialogue’ draws on many different traditions and is open to several different definitions. In everyday speech the term can be used to refer to almost any kind of social interaction where words or other signs are exchanged between people. The epistemological definition of dialogue implies that education should be designed to engage students in an ongoing process of shared enquiry that takes the form of a dialogue. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
