Dialogue, Argumentation and Education

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Beginnings -- 2 Changes in the Role of Talk in Education: Philosophical and Ideological Revolutions -- A Short and Discontinuous History of the Philosophy of Dialogue in Western Culture -- Changes in Educational Talk and Societal Changes: A Short and Incomplete Historical Sketch -- Talk in Classical Greece and in Roman-Hellenistic Education -- Changes in Educational Talk in the Scholastic Period -- Changes in Talk Practices in Traditional Jewish Learning -- The Rise and Decline of Scholastic Reason in Islam -- School Talk Nowadays: Tradition and First Attempts at Change -- School, Industrialisation and Alienation -- Progressive Pedagogies: Radical and Dialogical Approaches -- The Pedagogy of the Oppressed: A Radical Approach -- Robin Alexander's Dialogic Teaching -- Why Dialogic Pedagogy and Dialogic Teaching Did Not Reach the Expectations of Its Instigators -- Conclusions -- 3 Argumentation Theory for Education -- Introduction -- The Renewal of Argumentation Theory in the Twentieth Century: Perelman and Toulmin -- A Map of Modern Argumentation Theories -- Monological Approaches to Argumentation: Discursive and Structural Theories -- Argumentation as Dialogue: Discursive and Structural Aspects -- Entering into Argument -- Dialectical Roles -- What Is the Question? -- The Argumentation Phase: Rules, Actions and Fallacies -- Closing -- Paradoxes of Argumentation and Is or Should Everything Be Debatable? -- Coda: Logos and Pathos -- Conclusions -- 4 The Pervasive Role of Argumentation According to Progressive Pedagogies -- Educational Movements with Visions of Societal Change -- Critical Thinking -- Critical Pedagogy