Retrospective Study of a Dialogic Elementary Classroom - Understanding Long-Term Impacts of Discursive Pedagogies

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students' retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority.

Through this retrospective methodology, the text offers valuable insight into the long-term impacts of discursive practices on young learners' attitudes to learning and their educational trajectories. Analysis also serves to further understandings of how the classroom environment can function as a living dialogue, in which authority in respect to talk, knowledge sharing, and curricular choices serves as an interactional accomplishment and means of social justice.

This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in classroom discourse and critical pedagogy. It will be of particular interest to those with a focus on elementary education.

List of contents

1. Understanding Dialogic Pedagogy: Student Voice, Agency, and Choice 2. Interactional Accomplishments in the Dialogic Classroom: Insights from an Elementary Classroom 3. A Retrospective Case Study with Former Students 4. The Dialogic Classroom in Retrospect: Student Recollections and Long-Term Impacts 5. Inclusivity through Discursive Instruction: Relationships, Social Justice, Belonging 6. Living Dialogue and Authority in the Elementary Classroom: Insights to Inform Practice

About the author

Lynn Astarita Gatto is a retired associate professor and director of Elementary Education at Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, USA.

Summary

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students’ retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Astarita Gatto, Lynn Astarita (University of Rochester Gatto
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367640408
• ISBN: 978-0-367-64040-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy