{"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}
Sami Lehesvuori , Antti Lehtinen , Raija Hämäläinen , Jussi Maunuksela , Pekka Koskinen
{"title":"Student-centredness in physics laboratory teaching sessions","authors":"Sami Lehesvuori , Antti Lehtinen , Raija Hämäläinen , Jussi Maunuksela , Pekka Koskinen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a call for more interactive and student-centred pedagogy in higher education. This also concerns physics laboratory work, where student investigations are too often passive repetitions of close-ended tasks with little guidance from teaching assistants. To address this gap, a laboratory course was designed to enhance active student participation and interaction between students and teaching assistants. A seminal part of the course was the whole-class teaching sessions within which students had the opportunity to reflect on and orientate towards experimental work. Whole-class teaching sessions of four physics laboratory teaching assistants were carefully explored to determine how student-centredness was apparent during these sessions. Particular attention was given to the interactions and communication between teacher assistants and students. The results revealed different ways in which student-centredness can be facilitated in physics laboratory settings through communication, including dialogic elements. These elements consisted of eliciting students' ideas and explicitly linking their experiences to the discussions. Teacher assistants with a pedagogical background implemented dialogic communicative approaches when orchestrating instructional dialogue and linking different activities. Implications for teacher assistant training are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100773"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210656123000892/pdfft?md5=1760ad7974e4632052a8207c591d9573&pid=1-s2.0-S2210656123000892-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92017999","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":"Privileged discourses, teacher agency and alternative subjectivities: Analyzing Janus-faced character of English language pedagogy","authors":"Waqar Ali Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study examines English language pedagogy as a Janus-faced phenomenon based on interviews with 40 English language teachers in one province of Pakistan. The study draws on Foucault's writings on power relations and agency. The findings suggest that besides disciplinary techniques of surveillance and examination, states of domination maintained through officially sanctioned discourses and apparatuses, teachers also seem to exercise their agency by engaging in struggles against the institutionalized discourses that underpin the very existential question, e.g., ‘who are we?’. Such a question facilitates learning experience of diverse learners in classrooms and help them negotiate their identities. The study has implications for the similar global contexts where state-led ELT education is often studied in terms of the dominant ideologies obscuring the fact that they are also sites of contestation. English classes thus can be viewed as fields of force relations where teachers exist in a strategic relation with textbook content and diversity of learners subject to the states of domination as well as capable of countering such dominations and social hegemonies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100772"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197562","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":"Perezhivanie: An investigation into drama and emotions as children enter a conceptual Playworld","authors":"Ade Dwi Utami , Marilyn Fleer , Liang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100774","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>A growing number of studies have investigated play in early childhood education, with some bringing forward the development of emotions in imaginary play situations. Of significance, is the creative pedagogy of play developed by Lindqvist (1995) who drew on a cultural-historical concept of play to bring forward emotions in Playworld. This paper investigates how children experience different </span><em>perezhivanie</em> within the Playworld settings in Indonesia. The cultural-historical concept of play, <em>perezhivanie</em>, and the social situation of development are used to understand how a 4-year-old boy experienced contradictions during collective imaginary play. Eight hours of digital-visual observation data selected from 98 h of group-play activities were used to show how nine teachers interacted with 38 children during the play (3.5 to 5 years old, mean age 4.4 years). The findings show how the cultural device used in the Playworld provides rich opportunities and conditions for children to experience different emotions in play, and where a dynamic <em>perezhivanie</em> emerges through the contributions of the play partners to the play that results in development of emotional regulation. By drawing attention to children's <em>perezhivanie</em>, Playworld can be seen as a promising play pedagogy that offers rich social interactions in play that support children's development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100774"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197561","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":"A critical ethnography on instructor-student interactions in a mathematics teacher education course","authors":"Musa Sadak","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aimed to investigate the instructor-student interactions in a secondary level mathematics teacher education course through a critical ethnographic perspective. Participants in the study were 16 pre-service teachers at one of the large midwestern universities in the U.S. The data for the study consists of the transcribed audio recordings collected in four classroom meetings as well as exclusive field notes. It was revealed as a result of the current study that negotiation - re-negotiation mechanisms mediate the communications, which occur in accordance with the lifeworlds of students and instructor while system subordinates the lifeworld of these actors through its two main roots, contractual and normative systemic relationships. In addition, the reflection of these relationships on the instruction was also discussed. It is highly suggested for future researchers to investigate these interactions with extended sample sizes as well as in different learning environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100771"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197563","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":"Exploring emotion regulation in small ensemble contexts; three cases from higher music education","authors":"Damla Tahirbegi","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article reports on a qualitative study investigating the construct of regulation within the context of small music ensembles in Higher Music Education (HME). A multiple-case study approach is chosen to explore the socio-emotional interactions and students' regulatory processes when confronted with socio-emotional challenges. The study relates group-level video observations of three ensembles (classical (2); jazz/folk/rock) with students' self-reported experiences (<em>n</em> = 11). The data were qualitatively analysed using theory-informed thematic and interactional analyses. The results showed differences between the ensembles with respect to the challenges experienced. Furthermore, the cross-case analysis suggested that the quality of interaction (i.e., positive vs. negative) had a direct impact on the wellbeing of the groups' socio-emotional climate and shared regulation. Positive interaction not only increased music students' likelihood of enjoying ensemble work but also had an influence on shaping their collective-oriented strategy use and creative output. In contrast, prolonged negative interaction was linked to lower motivation and decreased collaborative effort among group members. The use of humour and shared references, such as recording labels, emerged as recurring strategies employed by students as socio-emotional tools that facilitated social regulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100741"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48109407","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}
Shai Goldfarb Cohen, Amit Zveik Lavi, Ofri Wagner-Lebel, Gideon Dishon
{"title":"Your shoes or mine? Examining perspective taking in social interaction","authors":"Shai Goldfarb Cohen, Amit Zveik Lavi, Ofri Wagner-Lebel, Gideon Dishon","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100755","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100755","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social Perspective taking (SPT) is the aptitude to consider others' thoughts, feelings, intentions, and motivations in a particular situation. Our goal was to gain a deeper understanding of SPT by focusing on its dynamic and social nature. Qualitatively analyzing small group dialogues in an 8th-grade humanities classroom, we explore the interplay between the level of SPT acts and dialogical moves. Our findings indicate that SPT in a group dialogue context is a complex practice in which students engage with different perspectives and evaluate how their perspectives differ (or do not differ) compared to the perspectives of others. Specifically, higher levels of SPT acts stem from explaining one's own perspective and by inviting peers to put themselves in someone else's shoes. Accordingly, we offer a novel theoretical conceptualization of how perspective taking takes place in social interaction, describing it as a process of <em>social anchoring and adjustment</em> in which interlocutors develop and adjust their perspective by building on others' ideas and challenging them. Critically, this process transpires through a shift between the first-, second-, and third-person perspective, which include taking on the perspective of fictional characters and their actual peers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100755"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46373760","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":"Instructional touch: The organisation of a close and closed interaction space for individualised instruction in ‘open classrooms’","authors":"Tanya Tyagunova , Georg Breidenstein","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100752","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100752","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article focuses on the use of touch, in concert with body and talk, as a resource for the organisation of teacher instruction in the context of individualised learning in ‘open classrooms’ in German primary schools. Drawing on video observations of naturally occurring interactions between teachers and students in one such school, we analyse what is specific to teachers' instructional practices in open classrooms, a setting where each student is typically occupied with his or her individual task. The analysis reveals two aspects of using touch that play an important role in the instructional practices of teachers as they control, guide, and support students working individually on their learning tasks: the use of touch as a resource for establishing and closing a local interaction space and the use of touch as an instructional resource. The embodied characteristics of this kind of individualised instruction presuppose and commit the participants to rather close bodily contact and ‘nested formations’ that are different from the teacher-fronted activities of the cohort teaching format.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100752"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41577047","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}
Fred Huijboom , Pierre van Meeuwen , Ellen Rusman , Marjan Vermeulen
{"title":"Differences and similarities in the development of Professional Learning Communities: A cross-case longitudinal study","authors":"Fred Huijboom , Pierre van Meeuwen , Ellen Rusman , Marjan Vermeulen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100740","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2023.100740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Professional learning communities (PLC) are considered a rich environment for teacher professional development. Through a cross-case longitudinal analysis, using questionnaires, interviews and observations, we explored the effect of school context factors on the development of seven PLCs in Dutch secondary education. The study revealed the importance of a pro-active, stimulating role of the school leader, the presence of collective autonomy and skilled facilitators, the quality of the discourse, and the degree of organisation and structure of meetings for PLC development. Sufficient time and space were considered indispensable by all PLCs. The findings of this study confirm and extend current knowledge on how to stimulate PLC development. Recommendations to foster PLC development were formulated providing guidelines for those involved in the implementation, development, and sustainability of PLCs in schools.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"42 ","pages":"Article 100740"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46666941","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}