Creating Classroom Communities of Learning

Roger Barnard

ISBN 10: 1847691129 / ISBN 13: 9781847691125

Edité par Channel View Publications Ltd, GB, 2008

A propos de cet article

The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author explains the specific context and through a theoretical and/or experiential perspective interprets the transcript data. The data are then re-interpreted by other authors in the book, illustrating the complexity and richness of interpretation and creating a dialogue among the book's contributors. At the end of each chapter, readers are then invited with assistance to join in the conversation by providing their own interpretations of other transcript data from the same context. The book will be useful for student teachers or practicing professionals, as well as all educators interested in exploratory classroom research.

N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781847691125

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Creating Classroom Communities of Learning
• Éditeur: Channel View Publications Ltd, GB
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1847691129
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781847691125
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 332 grammes

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Synopsis

This is a collection of nine case studies of teachers and young learners in countries as widely separated as USA, Japan and Australia. In each chapter, classroom interaction is interpreted by different authors to illustrate how teachers and their students verbally co-construct culturally appropriate learning attitudes and behaviours. The collection reveals not only similarities and differences across cultural divides, but also how different perspectives can provide alternative and rich interpretations of teaching and learning.

À propos de l?auteur

Roger Barnard is a senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has spent many years working with language teachers of young learners in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Professor María E. Torres-Guzmán is a professor in bilingual/multicultural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. She has primarily focused on teacher development and cultural aspects of the education of language minority populations in the United States, Spain and elsewhere.