EAN: 9783039116874

DOING DIVERSITY - MELINDA DOOLY KARTONIERT (TB)

How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of
the context they live and work in will influence  in many different ways  the interaction
within their classrooms. This book describes an indepth research that used ethnomethodology and
conversation analysis to study three different groups of teachers. The study highlights the
teachers' perspectives concerning heterogeneity in the classroom  using recordings of
discussions concerning cultural and linguistic diversity. Moreover  this research examines the
discourse participants' choice in the use (deployment) of categorical descriptions and reveals
the speaker as positioned  interested and accountable for meaning construction. Thus 
«portraits» of differing preservice and inservice teachers' orientation towards linguistic and
cultural diversity are analysed. By recognising these categorizations as partially bounded by
previous knowledge and partially constructed in situ  the research sees meaning-making by
teachers as a part of their lived work of teaching. It also reveals the social nature of these
categorizations because they are an inseparable element of the socially constituted fabric of
language in the environment of schooling and society.

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