Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy. His five-nation Culture and Pedagogy (2001) won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association, while Children, their World, their Education (2010), and his work as director of the Cambridge Primary Review, won the SES Book Awards First Prize and the BERA/Sage Public Impact and Engagement Award. His most recent book, A Dialogic Teaching Companion (2020), is a summation of many years of work on the quality of talk in teaching and learning.

"I found it inspirational because, along with the disappointments and frustrations, there is another feature which shines through every page: the author’s passionate concern for the world’s children and their education. It is, above all, the record of a man who has devoted his life, whatever the difficulties, to making a difference." - Derek Gillard, Forum

• IntroductionPART 1 – ABOVE THE PARAPET A tale of two reviews Health of a nation Success, amnesia and collateral damage Triumph of the eristic What works and what matters Evidence, mediation and narrativePART 2 – CURRICULUM CONVOLUTIONS Reform, retrench or recycle? Epistemic imbroglio Entitlement, freedom and minimalism Neither national nor a curriculum Beyond the reach of art True grit Curriculum capacity and leadershipPART 3 – SPEAKING BUT NOT LISTENING Promise and politics of talk Evaluating dialogic teaching The unquestioned answer Dialogic pedagogy in a post-truth worldPART 4 – EDUCATION FOR ALL Towards a comparative pedagogy World beating or world sustaining? Moral panic and miracle cures In pursuit of qualityBibliography

Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy. His five-nation Culture and Pedagogy (2001) won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association, while Children, their World, their Education (2010), and his work as director of the Cambridge Primary Review, won the SES Book Awards First Prize and the BERA/Sage Public Impact and Engagement Award. His most recent book, A Dialogic Teaching Companion (2020), is a summation of many years of work on the quality of talk in teaching and learning.

"I found it inspirational because, along with the disappointments and frustrations, there is another feature which shines through every page: the author’s passionate concern for the world’s children and their education. It is, above all, the record of a man who has devoted his life, whatever the difficulties, to making a difference." - Derek Gillard, Forum

• IntroductionPART 1 – ABOVE THE PARAPET A tale of two reviews Health of a nation Success, amnesia and collateral damage Triumph of the eristic What works and what matters Evidence, mediation and narrativePART 2 – CURRICULUM CONVOLUTIONS Reform, retrench or recycle? Epistemic imbroglio Entitlement, freedom and minimalism Neither national nor a curriculum Beyond the reach of art True grit Curriculum capacity and leadershipPART 3 – SPEAKING BUT NOT LISTENING Promise and politics of talk Evaluating dialogic teaching The unquestioned answer Dialogic pedagogy in a post-truth worldPART 4 – EDUCATION FOR ALL Towards a comparative pedagogy World beating or world sustaining? Moral panic and miracle cures In pursuit of qualityBibliography

Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy. His five-nation Culture and Pedagogy (2001) won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association, while Children, their World, their Education (2010), and his work as director of the Cambridge Primary Review, won the SES Book Awards First Prize and the BERA/Sage Public Impact and Engagement Award. His most recent book, A Dialogic Teaching Companion (2020), is a summation of many years of work on the quality of talk in teaching and learning.

"I found it inspirational because, along with the disappointments and frustrations, there is another feature which shines through every page: the author’s passionate concern for the world’s children and their education. It is, above all, the record of a man who has devoted his life, whatever the difficulties, to making a difference." - Derek Gillard, Forum

• IntroductionPART 1 – ABOVE THE PARAPET A tale of two reviews Health of a nation Success, amnesia and collateral damage Triumph of the eristic What works and what matters Evidence, mediation and narrativePART 2 – CURRICULUM CONVOLUTIONS Reform, retrench or recycle? Epistemic imbroglio Entitlement, freedom and minimalism Neither national nor a curriculum Beyond the reach of art True grit Curriculum capacity and leadershipPART 3 – SPEAKING BUT NOT LISTENING Promise and politics of talk Evaluating dialogic teaching The unquestioned answer Dialogic pedagogy in a post-truth worldPART 4 – EDUCATION FOR ALL Towards a comparative pedagogy World beating or world sustaining? Moral panic and miracle cures In pursuit of qualityBibliography