A major challenge to contemporary education is to meet the Government’s directive, depicted in OFSTED guidelines and the Department for Education’s Teacher Standards that all our learners make progress, are autonomous and are able to engage in independent learning. However they offer no guidance as to how this can be achieved. The research has built on earlier theories to close the gap between Government measurements of the quality of teaching and twenty-first century educational theories, with particular focus on learning talk. The primary intention of this research was to determine the impact that dynamically dialogic learning conversations, that is learning talk, have on deepening learning, and how they may be used to enable teachers to meet OFSTED’s requirement for all students to make progress. The data for this case study was collected through a process of lesson observations, interviews and focus-group discussions over a period of one year. Sixteen lessons were video-recorded for a variety of topics and the recordings were analysed in depth against established theories of learning and the complex patterns and relationships between the different types of student and teacher learning talk observed in the classroom. The outcome of the analysis is a set of observable characteristics of learning talk which form an Observation Database. The findings support the premise that learning talk in the classroom leads to deeper learning. The Observation Database contains of a set of tools for observing, evaluating and enabling learning talk in the classroom and therefore offers teachers the opportunity to demonstrate OFSTED criteria. The process of developing the Observation Database and the tools developed have been shared both locally and nationally to heighten awareness of learning talk in the classroom and its link to deeper learning.

På grund av mångfalden i dagens svenska skolor kan inte alltid traditionellt arbetssätt i matematikundervisning främja elever att utveckla sina förmågor såsom analys- och resonemangsförmåga. Läroboksstyrda lektioner ger inte elever möjligheter att komma till tals, lyssna på andras resonemang, tänka kritiskt och analysera andras tankesätt. Därför som matematiklärare blir det intressant att undersöka hur lärarna på alla stadier (låg-, mellan- respektive högstadiet) använder sig av dialogisk undervisning och vilken form av dialogisk undervisning som dominerar i respektive stadie. Därför genomfördes en fallstudie av dialogisk undervisning inom ramen för detta självständiga arbete. Datainsamlinggenomfördes genom observation samt ljudinspelning, i en lågstadie-, i en mellanstadie- och i en högstadieklass, sammanlagt nio lektioner. För att kunna analysera data har Robin Alexanders välkända ramverk för dialogisk undervisning använts (presenterat bl.a. i artikeln Developing dialogic teaching, 2018). I ramverket kategoriseras undervisningen utifrån repertoarer och principer som belyser olika aspekter av dialoger i klassrummet. Fallstudien visade att lektioner präglade av dialog förekom mest på låg- och mellanstadiet och i mindre utsträckning på högstadiet. Lärarnas främsta teaching talk bestod av recitation (initiera-respons-feedback) men kompletterat med hur och varför i hög grad i låg- och mellanstadielektioner med syfte att föra samtalet vidare vilket i sin tur möjliggjorde för att eleverna att komma till tals för att förklara och motivera sitt tänkande till skillnad från på högstadielektionerna där elevernas främsta learning talk bestod av korta svar. / Due to the diversity in today's Swedish schools, traditional methods in mathematics teaching can’t always promote students to develop their abilities such as analytical and reasoning skills. Textbook-guided lessons don’t give students opportunities to speak, listen to others thoughts, think critically and analyze the thinking of others. Therefore, as a mathematics teacher, it will be interesting to investigate how teachers at all stages (primary, intermediate, and upper-secondary) use dialogic teaching and which form of dialogic teaching dominates in each stage. Therefore, a case study of dialogic teaching was conducted within the framework of this independent work. Data collection was carried out through observation and sound recording, in an elementary school, in an intermediate school and in a high school class, a total of nine lessons. In order to be able to analyze data, Robin Alexander's well-known framework for dialogic teaching has been used (presented in the article Developing dialogic teaching, 2018). The framework categorizes teaching on the basis of repertoires and principles that illuminate various aspects of dialogues in the classroom. The case study showed that lessons characterized by dialogue occurred mostly in primary and middle school and to a lesser extent in high school. The teachers' main teaching talk consisted of recitation (initiate-response-feedback) but supplemented with how and why to a large extent in the primary and intermediate stage with the aim of passing on the conversation, which in turn made it possible for the students to speak to explain and motivate their thinking unlike in high school where the students' main learning talk consisted of short answers.