{"title":"Community engagement of underrepresented college students: Ultra-orthodox students in Israel as social change agents","authors":"Zvika Orr , Edith Blit-Cohen , Maya Vardi , Bina Be'eri , Daphna Golan-Agnon","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100782","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100782","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to contribute to the emerging body of research on community engagement of college students from minority and underserved groups. It examines community engagement programs involving students from the Jewish ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, a minority group that is clearly underrepresented in the higher education system in Israel. Using qualitative methods, this article analyzes how ultra-Orthodox students experience their community engagement and perceive its effects on themselves and on their communities. The findings illuminate how the students' social interactions during their volunteer work enhance meaningful learning despite considerable challenges and dilemmas. Ultra-orthodox students constantly cross social and cultural boundaries, and their choice to enroll in higher education is often delegitimized in their communities. Their ability to contribute to their communities through collegiate community engagement programs helps justify their decision to pursue an academic education. This ability also empowers them in the challenging liminal state between the ultra-Orthodox society and academia. Hence, community engagement helps reinforce the academization of the ultra-Orthodox society. This case study proposes that student volunteers from underrepresented minority groups can bridge the gap between academic institutions and their minority communities, serving as agents of societal change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100782"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686574","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":"Vocational teaching practices for online learning during a state of emergency and its relation to collaboration with colleagues","authors":"Meidi Sirk","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100781","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous studies focusing on change in vocational education have shown that collaboration shapes the professionality of vocational teachers (VTs) and helps them better adapt to change. The most collaborative VTs also use more learner-centred teaching practices. However, this raises the question of which teaching practices VTs implemented for online learning in the state of emergency and how these related to collaboration with colleagues. Based on quantitative data, the K-means cluster analysis was used, and three clusters of VTs were identified according to their teaching practices, which were described on the basis of forms of collaboration. The teachers of the second cluster used a variety of innovative teaching practices to support students and participated more in collaborative planning and teaching, and also provided feedback as well as collaborating more with their colleagues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100781"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210656123000971/pdfft?md5=42cada0357beec61324933aa22fa4557&pid=1-s2.0-S2210656123000971-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138474204","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":"Identities in motion – Boundary-crossing learning from an intrapersonal perspective","authors":"Marina Bergman-Pyykkönen , Ritva Engeström , Synnöve Karvinen-Niinikoski","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100780","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates how learning unfolds in poly-contextual settings. In work-related learning, boundaries between contexts have been viewed as learning resources. From the multilevel approach suggested by Akkerman and Bruining (2016), we focus on the intrapersonal level, on individuals as units of analysis. We propose an intrapersonal methodology and demonstrate it with an empirical study based on individual interviews. We combine cultural-historical activity theory understanding of an individual with Mariann Märtsin's ideas of identity construction and identity as subjective sense through multivoiced negotiations of meaning at the boundaries within the self. Our analysis demonstrates how the interviewees offered examples of identity construction that show how they rendered their being meaningful in the world in all its diversity without losing the unity of the self. Situationally dominant senses opened fields of meaning potentials with mediating semiotic devices at the boundary between the personal and the professional. The analysis points to some generalizability of sensemaking as a generic process that always operates in unique forms. Our findings suggest that exploring subjectivity from the perspective of sensemaking may contribute to research on work-related learning by addressing an object of sense making which is dialogically comprised with hybridity, multiplicity, and complexity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100780"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221065612300096X/pdfft?md5=8af9c94bd0af3f32e604f145e3b2ebd4&pid=1-s2.0-S221065612300096X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138467375","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":"Working within and against school structures: Exploring elementary teachers' agency for science and engineering instruction","authors":"Alison K. Mercier","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100777","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Many elementary classrooms lack science and engineering instruction. This problem is compounded by teachers who feel they lack the autonomy<span>, trust, and agency to include these experiences in their elementary curricula. However, this view of elementary teachers perpetuates prevalent pessimism focusing on what teachers lack and cannot accomplish. This study pushes back against these dominant </span></span>narratives<span> to explore teachers' agency as they work to integrate science and engineering into elementary curricula and provide transformative learning experiences<span>. Using a STEM journey mapping protocol combined with narrative inquiry, this article explores elementary teachers' narratives, voices, lived experiences, and agency. Study results provide examples of teachers creatively pushing boundaries while working within school structures and yield a more nuanced conceptualization of teachers' agency.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"44 ","pages":"Article 100777"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138453532","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":"Beyond school-related learning: Parent-child homework talk as a morality building activity","authors":"Letizia Caronia , Vittoria Colla","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Family interactions constitute an arena for children's moral development: it is indeed through ordinary talk, and shared, task-oriented activities that children are socialized into moral orders and culturally informed ways of thinking and acting. Drawing on a video-based study on the everyday life of 19 middle-class families and adopting a discourse analytic approach, the paper sheds light on the socializing function of a domestic activity: homework. We illustrate that, when it unfolds as a family activity, the issues at stake go far beyond its school-oriented goals: homework provides ‘ethical affordances’ that make relevant moral talk whereby parents introduce children to some unquestioned principles such as homework must be done neatly and it is part of the child's duties. We contend that, by participating in morally loaded homework interactions, children are socialized not only into a school-aligned cultural list concerning what is right and what is wrong about homework, but moreover into a constitutive, taken-for-granted pillar of human sociality: the moral assessability of human conduct, i.e., its being subject to evaluations informed by the ‘right vs. wrong’ category. Implications for teacher training and parent education programs are discussed in the conclusion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100778"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210656123000946/pdfft?md5=4b8798ce5a109d09e5dfa4f801a63967&pid=1-s2.0-S2210656123000946-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138396017","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":"Claiming insufficient knowledge in pairwork and groupwork classroom activities","authors":"Tamah Sherman , František Tůma","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100758","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This conversation analytic paper explores how students in pair and groupwork tasks produce and respond to claims of insufficient knowledge (CIKs). Based on 7 h of video recordings of peer interaction from 18 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes in Czech secondary schools, we analyze how students express and negotiate their epistemic status using CIKs: when producing a CIK, the current speaker assumes a not-knowing status, thus making the imminent speaker change more relevant, as the next speaker then typically reveals his or her epistemic status. We also show that when a CIK is produced dyadic interactions in second position, the first speaker then produces a knowledge display response, or another CIK, resulting in abandoning the question, which differs from sequences that can be found in frontal teaching. The findings also show that CIKs can be used to resume task-related talk and initiate repair sequences focusing on language issues that the task comprises. Thus, CIKs can be viewed as central interactional resources for students to manage the task, i.e., to invite others to contribute, to resume their talk, or to abandon the current question, and to initiate repair sequences focusing on problematic items from the task.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100758"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138396016","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":"Corrigendum to “Premising and arguing: The variety in 9- to 10-year-old children taking on an equity/equality task in the context of group discussions” [Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 35 (2022) 100648]","authors":"Lea Eldstål-Ahrens, Malin Nilsen, Niklas Pramling","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100779"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210656123000958/pdfft?md5=9aad45f2b2001d42943cc7f118660f2b&pid=1-s2.0-S2210656123000958-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138136343","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":"Indigenous dialogic teaching: Orality in a Tibetan school in China","authors":"Liqin Tong , Yisu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article describes the use of dialogic teaching in a rural Tibetan<span> school in China. Using ethnographic data from a school that serves socially disadvantaged Tibetan youth, we demonstrate that dialogic teaching is a powerful pedagogy even in a resource-deprived learning environment. We describe how oral commentary, interpretive discussions, and debate form the core of effective school practices. Inspired by traditional monastic training, schoolteachers have transformed the century-long indigenous oral practices into a culturally-appropriate form of pedagogy, infusing it into modern academic subjects. This article aims to enrich the growing literature on dialogic teaching by presenting a case outside Anglo-American societies. We examine an indigenous form of dialogic teaching by considering Alexander (2017, 2020)'s framework. Our analysis shows that while the specific pedagogy is developed indigenously, it is compatible with the dialogic philosophy. The findings suggest that the dialogic approach is a general pedagogy rooted in distinctive human societies. However, indigenous development also limits the school practices to a small repertoire.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100776"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134656559","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":"Unpacking EFL teachers' agency enacted in nested ecosystems in developing regions of Southern China","authors":"Qi Zhang , Yi Liu , Jian-E Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The critical role of teacher agency in curriculum reform among high school teachers remains under-researched. Drawing on an ecological perspective, this study investigated the difficulties senior high school EFL teachers faced and their agency enacted during the implementation of curriculum reform. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 senior high school EFL teachers in two developing regions of southern China, and qualitative content analysis was applied to analyze the data. The findings identified four key difficulties perceived by the teachers, and their passive or active agency enacted in response to diverse factors in the micro-, meso-, <em>exo</em>-, and macrosystems. This study underscores the need to enhance EFL teachers' active agency to ensure equitable English education access for students in developing regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100775"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92018000","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":"Facilitating Participation in Second Language Remote Meetings","authors":"Lari Kotilainen, Tuire Oittinen, Salla Kurhila, Inkeri Lehtimaja","doi":"10.7146/si.v6i4.136942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v6i4.136942","url":null,"abstract":"The affordances for organising social conduct in multilingual interaction vary depending on the setting. This article examines multilingual remote meetings and the ways in which second language speakers’ participation in interaction is facilitated by other speakers. More specifically, the focus is on moments of language-related troubles that become solved by entries accomplished by a non-primary recipient (i.e., third party) of the trouble turn. Drawing on screen-recorded data and conversation analysis (CA), we illustrate how second language speakers’ troubles are attended to either retrospectively (i.e., via repair) or prospectively, and how the entries require fine-grained coordination of verbal, embodied and technological resources. The analysis shows facilitation through third-party assistance as a complex process with professional and pedagogical dimensions. Our study provides insight into the ways in which technology-mediated environments may both create opportunities and limit the possibilities for second language speakers to recruit help from others via subtle (e.g., embodied) means.","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"56 7-8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136376473","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}