Research and Practice: Working with Teachers on Classroom Talk
Duration: 48 mins 17 secs
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| Description: | This lecture by Prof. Neil Mercer was presented online to Open University Masters students in May 2020. |
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| Created: | 2020-06-09 10:37 | ||
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CEDiR: Cambridge Educational Dialogue Research Group
Recent media from the Faculty of Education |
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| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Neil Mercer | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
| Keywords: | Classroom Talk; Dialogue; Methodology; Primary Education; Discourse Analysis; | ||
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| Abstract: | I have worked with teachers on research on talk and learning in classrooms since the 1970s and have used a range of methods to do so. In this lecture I will focus on two of the projects I have been involved in, discussing not only what they revealed about the nature and educational functions of spoken interaction, but also the practical implications of the results obtained. I have chosen those two particular projects because they were very different in design and scale, with one being a relatively small scale interventional study on groupwork and the second being a very large scale observational study of classroom teaching. I will use them to consider some of the advantages and disadvantages of doing each kind of classroom-based research. |
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