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School Democratic Meetings: Pupil Control Discourse in Disguise
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Thornberg, Robert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate how learning in "democratic participation" is constituted by the social interaction and conversation pattern in school democratic meetings in a Swedish primary school. According to the findings, a pupil control discourse and the Initiation-Response-Evaluation pattern dominates the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Democracy, Interaction, Case Studies
The Development of Chemistry Content by the Teachers of CHEM Study in High Schools in Franklin County, Ohio.
Ramsey, Gregor Allen – 1969
A category system was developed to describe content development in chemistry classes. The instrument had three broad dimensions: the Semantic dimension for coding the intent of the teacher in developing content; the Syntactic dimension for coding the actual meaning of the communication; and the Initiate-Supply dimension for coding the participants…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Instruction
Cyclic Patterns of Interaction in the Discourse of English Teachers.
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Kluwin, Thomas N. – 1979
The use of discourse analysis in examining the classroom language interactions between English teachers and their students builds on the basic concepts of language function and language sequence. The four language functions are eliciting, informing, directing, and boundary marking (marking the divisions of discourse units). The three language…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
Interactive Styles in Traditional and Reflective Teacher Education Seminars.
Hutchinson, Lynn M. – 1989
This study describes the interactive styles of two university professors and their students in traditional and reflective seminar contexts. As both professors taught the same group of undergraduates in an inquiry oriented experimental teacher education program and also taught groups of graduate students in traditional seminars, it was possible to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Divergent Thinking, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Talk about Text: Changes in Content and Authority Structures in Peer Response Groups. Research Report 90-5.
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McCarthey, Sarah J. – 1990
Changes in the teacher's authority structure as well as changes in the content of student talk during peer response sessions occur over the course of a school year in a first-grade classroom. In the beginning of the year, the teacher, a beginner in the Teachers College Writing Project, dominated the talk during share sessions, while the students'…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Grade 1, Group Dynamics
Breaking the Rules of the Classroom Game Through Self Analysis.
Fanselow, John F. – 1976
The patterns of moves in one type of teaching setting is very fixed: the teacher sets the stage for the learning, then sets tasks or asks questions for others to respond to and then comments on the performances. The problem with this pattern in language classrooms is that language is used differently in non-teaching settings. If students are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)