{"title":"Recruiting help in everyday research work: Epistemic stance taking and accountability in interaction","authors":"Fabíola Stein","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how novice researchers (master's and PhD students) independently initiate knowledge sharing and instructional activities in the midst of everyday research work. Approaching such activities as instances of help recruitment, the study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to describe how novices mobilize assistance from more experienced peers and supervisors. The interactional data was generated at a Physical Chemistry research program of a Swedish university, and consists of video-recordings of different spontaneous interactions at laboratories and shared offices, including a supervision meeting. The study focuses on recruitment sequences where help seekers refrain from displaying full lack of knowledge or skill. The analyses show how novices (1) use particular framings, such as “quick question”, and confirmation requests to particularize the scope of their problems and mitigate unknowing stances; (2) legitimize their requests for assistance by addressing their shared history with the recipient party; and (3) withhold direct requests in favor of producing accounts and displaying limited epistemic access, as if to “fish” for help. Through these methods, help seekers accountably frame and design their requests finely modulating epistemic stances, while constructing and upholding themselves as potential members of the scientific workplace, i.e., as researchers in training who need assistance at specific moments and regarding particular problems. By uncovering the intricate ways in which epistemic stance taking and issues of accountability relate to the accomplishment of help recruitment, the study also shows how novices address matters of autonomy and competence within apprenticeship situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100890"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lynn Dittrich , Toril Aagaard , Astrid Camilla Wiig
{"title":"Highlighting practices and dialogic moves: Investigating simulation-based learning in online teacher education","authors":"Lynn Dittrich , Toril Aagaard , Astrid Camilla Wiig","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100889","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100889","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this study is to examine the potential of simulations for supporting professional learning opportunities in teacher education. Specifically, we investigate how students enact and analyse core practices in a simulated setting when teaching fractions at the fifth-grade level. The data consists of 160 minutes of video footage in which fifteen pre-service teachers at a Norwegian university either practised teaching in a simulation or served as peer observers. Analytically, we apply interaction analysis to the data to explore how the students engaged in both specific and general core practices. The findings show that simulation training including debriefing facilitates the enactment and critical analyses of various core practices such as creating a productive learning environment and strategically redirecting off-task behaviour. Additionally, the findings show that the pedagogical potential of simulation-based learning lies in the interaction that unfolds between the participants namely, the support of the interactor who scaffolds enactment and the educator who facilitates the students' reflective analysis of teaching through specific dialogic moves. Simulation-based learning is thus suggested as an appropriate supplement for training pre-service teachers, preparing them for future professional work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100889"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143175523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching and learning argumentative writing as critical thinking in an EFL composition classroom","authors":"Qian Wang , George E. Newell","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the valuable contributions of research on teaching pre-set structures of argumentative writing to foster understanding of argumentation in English as Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, structural approaches alone may not provide students with the necessary flexibility as writers, readers, and thinkers. One response to this challenge is to employ critical thinking, which involves an approach to teaching and learning argumentative writing that encourages students to take critical positions in their writing, supported by relevant and cogent evidence. This study examines how an EFL teacher interprets and integrates critical thinking into argumentative writing instruction. Grounded in a theoretical framework that views argumentation from a social perspective, this study considers the social practices and interactional dimensions involved in learning to read and write. Through microethnographic discourse analysis, the study demonstrates how the instructor views critical thinking as the process of identifying and solving problem in argumentative writing and how the teacher employs targeted questions, peer discussions, and inquiry-based analysis to help students learn to argue. These findings may have important implications for argumentative writing pedagogy and writing teacher education in EFL settings, emphasizing the significance of integrating critical thinking skills into instruction to enhance students' ability to engage effectively in argumentation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laughing together in supervision interaction","authors":"Zhiying Jian","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100888","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100888","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is well known that laughter in conversation serves to manage delicacy or achieve solidarity. This study examines the shared laughter between students and supervisors during university supervision meetings. Drawing from 20 sequences of joint laughter, this conversation analytic study identifies patterns regarding how such joint laughter is achieved, the turn features of laughables that lead to it, and what the joint laughter accomplishes in the interaction. It is shown that joint laughter typically follows a laugh invitation or voluntary laughter responsive to a laughable turn, regardless of which party initiates it. In particular, misaligning actions significantly contribute as the source of laughables. Through joint laughter, participants demonstrate their equal affective stance regarding the laughable matter, and promote a more productive interaction. Overall, this study aims to enhance our understanding of supervision interactions by elucidating seemingly trivial phenomenon like laughing together. Data were collected in institutions in the UK, and all recorded interactions are in English.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100888"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating upper-secondary school learners' contributions in co-regulation and socially shared regulation during collaborative learning","authors":"Sara Ahola, Jonna Malmberg, Hanna Järvenoja","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The participation of group members is vital in collaborative learning (CL) to achieve a shared goal. When challenges are inevitably faced during CL, retaking control of the shared learning processes calls for group members' regulatory contributions. Yet, research on how learners contribute to group-level regulation is limited. To understand how regulation manifests in collaborative group contexts, there is a need to understand the role that individual learners' contributions play. Therefore, the current study aims to explore how learners contribute to regulation in an authentic face-to-face CL setting. The study participants comprised 94 seventh graders. The context of the study was a physics course where participants were videotaped during their collaborative work across four 90-min lessons. Thirteen different contributions were identified based on detailed qualitative video analysis. The results from process models show that co-regulation of learning (CoRL) and socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL) episodes commonly initiated in a similar manner and shared the most typical path in terms of the contributions. However, differences emerged, highlighting the central roles of guiding and following in CoRL, and sharedness and co-construction in SSRL. The study sheds light on how learner contributions should be considered while trying to understand regulation among CL groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dynamic systems examination of the impact of peers on educator–infant synchrony within joint attention interactions in an early childhood room","authors":"Sarah Jacobson , Sheila Degotardi , Naomi Sweller","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Joint attention is a crucial component of quality practice in infant–toddler early childhood education. Joint attention defines a social interaction in which infant and caregiver coordinate attention to engage with an object of interest. Mutual responsiveness within coordinated and creative joint action supports language and cognitive development. However, most joint attention research involves mother–infant dyads in laboratory playrooms or home environments with few distractions. Limited research in early childhood centres suggests joint attention is difficult to sustain in group settings. This study used a dynamic systems approach to operationalise educator–infant synchrony within dyadic and group joint attention interactions. Mutual responsiveness was coded as dyadic co-regulation states. Quantitative analysis of educator–infant co-regulation in relation to number of peers present identified symmetrical co-regulation as the preferred state of the system; however, its strength as an attractor diminished as group size increased. State space grid analysis of temporal dynamics within each interaction provided a more nuanced understanding of peers as perturbations. The structure of group activities and how educators divided their attention among infants were also influential factors. Increasing educators' awareness of the micro-dynamics of joint attention can enhance their ability to provide opportunities for collaborative learning experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100868"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authority and positionings in elementary mathematics: An interactional ethnographic approach","authors":"Daniel Edelen , Sarah B. Bush , Janet Andreasen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this interactional ethnographic investigation, one third grade elementary mathematics classroom served as a lens to develop an interactional understanding of authority negotiations between two students. Through a discursive analysis of one telling case, we demonstrate how students navigated classroom interactions by maintaining a relationship close to their teacher's positionings and through adhering to the co-constructed storylines of the classroom cultures in the making. Findings elucidate the ways students use the authority of the teacher in assigning mathematical competence during collaborative work. Future directions for research on understanding shared authority in mathematics education are considered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100866"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peer interactions in 4/6-month-old infants: From motor development to multimodal communication","authors":"Hélène Cochet, Flore Chéné, Michèle Guidetti","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the present study, infants between 4 and 6 months of age were observed in daycare centers, either on their own or in the presence of another infant. Our goal was to explore the potential continuity between motor activity observed in early social situations and communication development. In order to investigate the influence of body posture on the opportunities of interaction with social environment, we also compared two conditions: infants were lying on a playmat or seated in bouncers. Our results suggest that infants modified their posture, movements and gaze behavior in dyadic situations compared to situations alone, reflecting a <em>multimodal social tropism.</em> Moreover, infants' positioning influenced the modality they engaged in the relationship with the other. This work highlights the need to analyse multimodal characteristics of interactions and to add posture variations as a key variable to better understand how infants develop communicative intention toward their peers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100869"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Egalitarian dialogue and student participation in Learning Communities. The case of the Coquimbo Region, Chile","authors":"Ignacia Palma Salinas","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100867","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scientific literature has shown that student participation has been mainly directed and instrumentalized by adults in schools, which implies a passive role for students. However, the research shows the existence of educational processes that encourage student participation through dialogue in Learning Communities. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the positive effects of dialogic learning through egalitarian dialogue on primary student participation in two Learning Communities in the Coquimbo Region. A qualitative case study with communicative methodology was employed. The data were collected using two techniques: communicative daily-life stories and communicative discussion groups. Results indicate that egalitarian dialogue enables students to participate in their learning processes, reach collective agreements, and engage in decision-making. It is concluded that dialogic learning positively affects student participation through egalitarian dialogue in the schools analysed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100867"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating agency in teacher-children triads of collaborative (re)storytelling: Empirical study and methodological implications","authors":"Niklas Pramling, Jenny Myrendal, Sofije Shengjergji","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study addresses the support and responsiveness towards children's agency within early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the context of collaborative storytelling. We analyze activities in which ECEC teachers together with pairs of children (re)tell a story that they know from a book. Like in any social activity, the matter theoretically referred to as ‘agency’ is actualized. In the case of storytelling, this is a matter that could be formulated in terms of ‘authoring’ and ‘what story’ or ‘whose story’ is (to be) told. Adopting a sociocultural/dialogical perspective, we analyze the interaction in these triads, paying particular attention to shifts in the authoring of stories and in manifestations of stancetaking. The empirical data were gathered from two internationally profiled preschools in Sweden, involving 10 children aged 4–5 years who engage in multiple languages. The results clarify the continuous negotiation of agency in the activities. The results are discussed in terms of methodology and the importance of studying agency in a manner that captures it as dynamic, changing and evolving, rather than as reified possession, is emphasized.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100865"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210656124000734/pdfft?md5=df877b32d1e689906358d572d903ccea&pid=1-s2.0-S2210656124000734-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}