Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Introduction : establishing a case for sharing research-based instructional strategies

Part 1. Structuring dialogue

The playground of ideas : developing a structured approach to the community of inquiry for young children

The thinking together approach to dialogic teaching

Compare and discuss to promote deeper learning

Part 2. Facilitating meaning construction

Refining student thinking through scientific theory building

Extending students’ communicative repertoires : a culture of inquiry perspective for reflexive learning

Transforming classroom discourse as a resource for learning : adapting interactional ethnography for teaching and learning

Part 3. Cultivating questioning

Question based instruction (QBI) promotes learners’ abilities to ask more questions and express opinions during group discussions

Augmentedworld : a location-based question-generating platform as a means of promoting 21st-century skills

Effective ways to prepare for deeper learning of history

Part 4. Promoting engagement and reflection

“Laughter is the best medicine” : pedagogies of humor and joy that support critical thinking and communicative competence

Improving college students’ critical thinking through the use of a story tool for self-regulated learning training

Debugging as a context for fostering reflection on critical thinking and emotion

Part 5. Training specific competencies

Showing what it looks like : teaching students to use diagrams in problem solving, communication, and thinking

Class design for developing presentation skills for graduate research students

Online written argumentation: internal dialogic features and classroom instruction

Cultivating pre-service and in-service teachers’ abilities to deepen understanding and promote learning strategy use in pupils

Part 6. Program/course teaching

Cultivation of a critical thinking disposition and inquiry skills among high school students

Using task-based language teaching in the second language classroom : developing global communication competencies

Collective reasoning in elementary engineering education