Wortham, Stanton2023-05-222023-05-222011-01-012015-02-11https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/35012This commentary engages with essentially contestable questions raised by the School of the Dialogue of Cultures. It focuses on questions about how theory should relate to practice and how a "dialogic" approach can involve students in simultaneously rigorous and relevant academic discussions.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Russian & East European Psychology in 2011, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.2753/RPO1061-0405490211.EducationArticle