Types of types of educational dialogue

Educational research on classroom interactions has identified many different types of educational dialogue, whose defining principles are of different types. The purpose of this short article is to inquire into these principles, in the specific case of types of argumentation dialogue, as defined in the articles published in the special issue “Pragmatics, Education and Argumentation” of the journal Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. Types of dialogue are defined in terms combinations of societal motives, institutional constraints and policies, pedagogies, ideologies, discursive processes and individual or shared goals in dialogue. It is argued that understanding types of educational dialogue is important for understanding meaning making, educational design and practice, as well for analysing constructive and productive educational dialogue.