This collection of essays brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice
across cultural and pedagogical boundaries. These encounters offer fresh perspectives on
contemporary issues in education and consider pedagogical responses that are framed within a
dialogic imperative. The book also pioneers an important discussion about the place of the
Bakhtin Circle in educational philosophy today. Drawing on the historical and contemporary
scholarship that has already taken place in education to date the book emphasizes the living
nature of language as intentional acts that take place within learning relationships.
Consideration is given to the wider contexts in which pedagogy takes place and shifts the role
of the teacher as expert transmitter of knowledge to dialogic partner in learning. Bakhtinian
Pedagogy is particularly suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate teacher education courses
that focus on pedagogical studies in early childhood primary secondary and tertiary
learning. It is also a suitable text for educational philosophy students at postgraduate level.
