1. Introduction / Helen Cowie and Geerdina M. van der Aalsvoort

2. Studying Social Interaction in Instruction and Learning: Methodological Approaches and Problems / Geerdina M. van der Aalsvoort and Frits J.H. Harinck

3. Institutional Framings in Thinking, Learning and Teaching / Michele Grossen

4. "Shall we be Researchers Again?" Identity and Social Interaction in a Community of Inquiry / Ed Elbers and Leen Streefland

5. Collective Argumentation: A Sociocultural Approach to Reframing Classroom Teaching and Learning / Raymond A.J. Brown and Peter D. Renshaw

6. The Development of Children's Social Representations of the Primary School Curriculum / Gabrielle Ivinson

7. Learning the Communication Skills and Social Processes of Peer Support: A Case Study of Good Practice / Paul Naylor and Helen Cowie

8. Co-Construction in Kindergartners' Free Play: Effects of Social, Individual and Didactic Factors / Paul P.M. Leseman, Linda Rollenberg and Eveline Gebhardt

9. Activity and Interaction in Pedagogical Contexts / Judith Ireson

10. Mapping the Dynamics of Peer Group Interaction: A Method of Analysis of Socially Shared Learning Processes / Kristiina Kumpulainen and Mika Mutanen

11. Deep Processing in a Collaborative Learning Environment / Carla van Boxtel, Jos van der Linden and Gellof Kanselaar

12. Language for Thinking: A Study of Children Solving Reasoning Test Problems Together / Rupert Wegerif and Neil Mercer

13. Guided Participation, Discourse and the Construction of Knowledge in Mexican Classrooms / Sylvia Rojas-Drummond

14. Overview and New Perspectives / Geerdina M. van der Aalsvoort, Helen Cowie and Neil Mercer.