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Educating Toddlers To Teachers: Learning To See And Influence The School And Peer Cultures Of Classrooms (Discourse And Social Processes), David Fernie, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Educating Toddlers To Teachers: Learning To See And Influence The School And Peer Cultures Of Classrooms (Discourse And Social Processes), David Fernie, Samara Madrid, Rebecca Kantor
Rebecca Kantor
This book illustrates the usefulness of understanding classrooms as peer and school cultural venues for examining diverse topics at any and all grade levels. At the core of the volume are eight empirical ethnographic studies that employ a classroom as cultures framework. The voices of both children and teachers are ever-present in these analyses.
The Construction Of Schooled Discourse Repertoires: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective On Learning To Talk In Preschool, Rebecca Kantor, Judith Green, Mimi Bradley, Lichu Lin
The Construction Of Schooled Discourse Repertoires: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective On Learning To Talk In Preschool, Rebecca Kantor, Judith Green, Mimi Bradley, Lichu Lin
Rebecca Kantor
Analysis of the discourse demands across the school year within a recurrent event, “Circle Time,” is presented to show how 3- and 4-year-old students learned to be conversationally appropriate partners within a group setting, how the teacher's interactional patterns shifted as students learned to participate in socially and academically appropriate ways within this event, and how participation in the subevents of Circle Time (Milling, Transition, Singing, Talking, and Dismissal) placed differing social and communicative demands on both teacher and students. The overtime analysis of one Circle Time subevent, Talking, is presented to illustrate how 3- and 4-year-old students, in their …