Better than Best Practice

Links

More about us, and our institutions:

Authors' web-site and blog: dialogicpedagogy.com

Julia Snell’s web-site: http://www.snell.me.uk/

King’s College London Department of Education and Professional Studies, UK: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/education/index.aspx

King’s College London Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication, UK: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/ldc/index.aspx

Adam Lefstein’s web-site: http://in.bgu.ac.il/humsos/edu/english/Pages/staff/Adam%20Lefstein.aspx

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Education, Israel: http://in.bgu.ac.il/humsos/edu/english/Pages/default.aspx

Towards Dialogue: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Classroom Interaction and Change: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-061-25-0363/read

Recordings of classroom practice:

Teachscape: http://www.teachscape.com/

The Inquiry Project: http://inquiryproject.terc.edu/.

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study video site (includes math and science lessons from seven different countries): http://timssvideo.com/

Carnegie Foundation’s ‘Going Public with our Teaching’: http://www.goingpublicwithteaching.org/

The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) ‘Images of Practice’: http://www.tc.edu/centers/ncrest/images.htm

‘Every Child a Reader and Writer’: http://www.insidewritingworkshop.org/classroom/

The Teaching Channel: https://www.teachingchannel.org/

Other useful, relevant resources:

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum: http://www.uklef.net/

Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal: http://dpj.pitt.edu/

Urban Culture and Classroom Interaction: Realities, Dilemmas, Responses (a book about classroom interaction with professional development materials for secondary school teachers): http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/education/research/ucc/UrbanClassroomCultureBOOK.pdf

Other researchers whose work should interest readers of the book:

Professor Robin Alexander, University of Cambridge, UK and University of Warwick, UK: http://www.robinalexander.org.uk/

Professor Ray McDermott, Stanford University, USA: https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/rpmcd

Professor Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge, UK: http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/mercer/

Professor Sarah Michaels, Clark University, USA: http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?id=15

Professor Martin Nystrand, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA: http://www.english.wisc.edu/nystrand/

Professor Mary Catherine O’Connor, Boston University, USA: http://www.bu.edu/applied-linguistics/people/faculty/mary-catherine-oconnor/

Professor Ben Rampton, King’s College London, UK: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/education/people/academic/ramptonb.aspx

Professor Miriam Gamoran Sherin and colleagues, The Role of Video in Teacher Learning project, Northwestern University, USA: http://www.professional-vision.org/index.html

Professor Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania, USA: http://scholar.gse.upenn.edu/stantonw/home