Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning - Softcover

Marton, Ference

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805840095 ISBN 13: 9780805840094

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning This work discusses the space of learning, discernment and the question "What can be learned?", covering simultaneity and the enacted object of learning, the semantic enrichment of the space of learning, and the shared space of learning. Full description

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Synopsis

"Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning" is about learning in schools and the central role of language in learning. The investigations of learning it reports are based on two premises: First, whatever you are trying to learn there are certain necessary conditions for succeeding - although you cannot be sure that learning will take place when those conditions are met, you can be sure that no learning will occur if they are not. The limits of what is possible to learn is what the authors call "the space of learning." Second, language plays a central role in learning - it does not merely convey meaning, it also creates meaning. The book explicates the necessary conditions for successful learning and employs investigations of classroom discourse data to demonstrate how the space of learning is linguistically constituted in the classroom. This book makes the case that an understanding of how the space of learning is linguistically constituted in the classroom is best achieved through investigating "classroom discourse" and that finding out finding out what the conditions are for successful learning and bringing them about should be the teacher's primary professional task.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0805840095
• ISBN 13: 9780805840094
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256