Description
Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects. Together, the chapters document the embodied accomplishment of teaching by identifying specific resources that teachers use to manage instructional projects; demonstrate that teaching entails both alignment and affiliation work; and show the significance of using high-quality audiovisual data to document the sophisticated work of teaching. By providing analytic insight into the highly-specialized work of teaching, the studies make a significant contribution to a practice-based understanding of how the life of the classroom, as lived by its members, is accomplished.
Trade ReviewDrawing on a range of empirical settings, the studies in this volume show that teaching is skillful doing-in-the-world and illuminate how teachers' full embodied repertoires are crucial in the accomplishment of the locally contextualized, yet recognizable acts, that instantiate their métier. The volume is of immense value to practitioners, researchers and educators alike.
* Søren Wind Eskildsen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *
This collection offers a diverse array of studies which encapsulates how teaching and learning are accomplished in their local orders of production. With their wide angle on the issues and their focused analytic lenses, the authors deftly zoom in on talk and embodied practices that are important and integral to giving readers an unobstructed aerial view of the ‘how’ that makes teaching and learning happen, again and again.
* Jean Wong, The College of New Jersey, USA *
This thought-provoking volume offers a glimpse into the ways we incorporate our bodies into what we do, say and teach. Its fine-grained analysis of real instances of talk demonstrates how teachers draw on gestures, gaze and the like to deal with the interactional challenges of the classroom ecology.
* Tim Greer, Kobe University, Japan *
[This book] is a valuable contribution to research on interaction in classrooms and similar pedagogical contexts. In particular, it shows how teaching and learning involve a multiplicity of participation frameworks and contingencies for both teachers and students to manage as they cooperate, or disengage and do not cooperate, or at least limit their cooperation, in the co-construction of the multimodal interaction through which teaching and learning are accomplished.
-- Eric Hauser, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan; University of Hawai ʻ i at Mānoa, USA * Discourse Studies 22(3) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Joan Kelly Hall and Stephen Daniel Looney: Introduction: The Embodied Work of Teaching
Chapter 2. Nadja Tadic and Catherine DiFelice Box. Attending to the Interpersonal and Institutional Contingencies of Interaction in an Elementary Classroom
Chapter 3. Joan Kelly Hall, Taiane Malabarba, and Daisuke Kimura: What’s Symmetrical?: A Teacher’s Cooperative Management of Learner Turns in a Read-Aloud Activity
Chapter 4. Stephen Daniel Looney and Jamie Kim: Managing Disaligning Responses: Sequence and Embodiment in Third Turn Teases
Chapter 5. Elizabeth Reddington, Di Yu, and Nadja Tadic: A Tale of Two Tasks: Facilitating Storytelling in the Adult ESL Classroom
Chapter 6. Drew Fagan: Teacher Embodied Responsiveness to Student Displays of Trouble Within Small-Group Activities
Chapter 7. Hansun Zhang Waring and Lauren B. Carpenter: Gaze Shifts as a Resource for Managing Attention and Recipiency
Chapter 8. Olcay Sert: Mutual Gaze, Embodied Go-aheads, and their Interactional Consequences in L2 Classrooms
Chapter 9. Innhwa Park: The Use of Embodied Self-directed Talk in Teaching Writing
Chapter 10. Yumi Matsumoto: Embodied Actions and Gestures as Interactional Resources for Teaching in a L2 Writing Classroom
Chapter 11. Abby Mueller Dobs: Collective Translations: Translating Together in a Chinese Foreign Language Class
Chapter 12. Stephen Daniel Looney: The Embodied Accomplishment of Teaching: Challenges for Research and Practice
