First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Neil Mercer is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. .

Karen Littleton is Professor of Psychology in Education at The Open University, UK.

1. Why Dialogue? 2. Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn 3. Language for Getting Things Done 4. Studying Thinking and its Development as Situated Dialogue 5. A Dialogic Theory of Learning and Development 6. Children Actively Make Sense of Their World...but They Need Guidance to Do So 7. Conclusions