Chapter 3: Conversation in Educational Contexts: School at Home and Home at School

The main idea of this chapter is to explore some evidence of the link between family and school, with a specific look at the dynamics involved in the crossing boundaries of these educational contexts. We devote a strong interest in these settings for different reasons: Firstly, we assume that family is the most crucial context of interaction between generations, because of the possibility to acquire social, cognitive, and linguistic competence through interactions between family members. At the same time, the school context is a relevant one in the process of children’s socialization, above all because of the experimentation with different social competences outside of the family system.