ABSTRACT
Pedagogy is both a 'practice' and a 'process' through which certain ways of thinking can be acquired or through which certain actions can be developed, justified and valued. In Alexander's dialogic pedagogy, realms of knowledge and ways of knowing go far beyond mere bodies of information. Drawing on Professor Robin Alexander's concept of a dialogic curriculum, the connection point that teachers want to develop through their pedagogy relates to generic skills. Alexander discusses the work of the most celebrated theorist of multiple intelligence, Howard Gardner. This chapter discusses teachers' performance in the classroom. For, as any performer knows, a good performance needs to be planned for in considerable detail and, most importantly, the performer has to have an idea of what they want to communicate to their audience. The teacher plays the role of the actor and the classroom becomes the set, the context for the performance that does play a fundamental role in bringing it to life.
