The Research Process in Classroom Discourse Analysis: Current Perspectives

by Cole; Kim Marie

• ISBN13: 9780805855302
• ISBN10: 0805855300
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351541022
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume gives intellectual space to a range of current perspectives on classroom discourse research and provides a forum for conversations about the research process. Classroom discourse researchers from different theoretical perspectives provide five separate analyses of the same instructional unit in a high school biology class, using the same set of data. Interwoven with the five research reports are several conversations among the editors and researchers regarding specific aspects of the research process. These conversations illuminate some of the actual decisions that researchers make when looking at data and crafting their analyses.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Cultural and Political Context of Schooling at Jefferson High School	p. 13
The Functions of Lexical Items in the Asthma Project Discourse	p. 21
Conversations on the Research Process: Scope of Data	p. 43
The Contextualization of Participation in the Asthma Project: Response Sequences in Classroom Talk	p. 49
Conversations on the Research Process: Defining Discourse	p. 73
Narratives of Relevance: Seizing (or not) Critical Moments	p. 77
Conversations on the Research Process: Questions of Reliability and Validity	p. 99
Where Reform and Interaction Meet: Spaces for Appropriation and Resistance	p. 103
Conversations on the Research Process: Contextualizing the Researcher	p. 125
Apprenticing into a Community: Challenges of the Asthma Project	p. 129
Concluding Thoughts: Applications and Implications	p. 149
Transcription Conventions in Conversation Analysis	p. 159
Author Index	p. 161
Subject Index	p. 165
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