This represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights Mikhail Bakhtin's theories and modern scholarship.

Part I. Ideologies in Dialogue: Theoretical Considerations: 1. Ideological becoming: Bahktinian concepts to guide the study of language, literacy and learning Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Arnetha F. Ball; 2. Dewey and Bakhtin in dialogue: from Rosenblatt to a pedagogy of literature as a social, aesthetic practice Mark Dressman; 3. Intertextualities: Volosinov, Bakhtin, literacy theory, and literacy studies Charles Bazerman; 4. Voices in the dialogue: the teaching of academic language to minority second-language learners Guadalupe Valdes; Voices in dialogue - dialoguing about dialogism: form and content in a Bahktinian dialogue Allison Weiss Brettschneider; Part II. Voiced, Double Voiced, and Multi-voiced Discourses in our Schools: 5. Performance as the foundation for a secondary school of literacy program: a Bakhtinian perspective Eileen Landay; 6. Double voiced discourse: African American vernacular English as resource in cultural modeling classrooms Carol D. Lee; 7. Narratives of rethinking: the inner dialogue of classroom discourse and student writing Christian Knoeller; 8. Authoring pedagogical change in secondary subject-area classrooms: ever newer ways of meaning Cynthia Greenleaf and Mira-Lisa Katz; Voices in dialogue: multi-voiced discourses in ideological becoming Verda Delp; Part III. Heteroglossia in a Changing World: 9. New teachers for new times: the dialogical principle in teaching and learning electronically Jabari Mahiri; 10. Is contradiction contrary? Melanie Sperling; 11. A Bakhtinian perspective on learning to read and write late in life Judy Kalman; 12. New times and new literacies: themes for a changing world; Voices in dialogue: hybridity as literacy, literacy as hybridity; dialogic responses to a heteroglossic world James Paul Gee; Voices in dialogue: hybridity as literacy, literacy as hybridity: dialogic responses to a heteroglossic world Alice A. Milano; Part IV. A Closing Thought on Bakhtinian Perspectives: 13. The process of ideological becoming Gary Saul Morson; Author index; Subject index.