This year’s conference is about learning, development and the education of people - children, young people and adults. People expect to be taught what they need to know, but the remarkable thing is that in dialogue everyone learns although nobody is teaching! It is a way of talking together where people enquire into their own immediate experience as they hear other people’s considerations and learn from them. The Academy is investing in taking dialogue into primary schools, and The Dialogic Classroom led by Jane Ball will be a feature of this conference, with the opportunity to hear from those professionals who are directly involved in the UK, Argentina, South Africa and Iran.