Dialogic teaching to the high stakes standardized test?
Segal, A; Snell, J; Lefstein, A · White Rose Research Online
Within current educational discourse, dialogic pedagogy is diametrically opposed to teaching to the test, especially the high stakes standardized test. While dialogic pedagogy is about critical thinking, authenticity and freedom, test preparation evokes all that is narrow, instrumental and cynical in education. In this paper we argue that such positioning of…