Troubles with Dialogic Teaching. How to Situate Dialogue Back in Classrooms.
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Classroom discourse has become one of the key topics of educational science. Many authors have a long-term research interest in forms of talk in the classroom and their educational functions.This paper examines dialogic teaching in Czech lower secondary schools and shows whether Czech teachers use forms of dialogic teaching in their practice. It is based on an analysis of empirical data obtained from two successive research projects. The first one, called Communication in the Classroom (2009–2011) and its aim was to describe current state of educational communication in humanities subjects at Czech lower secondary schools. Data were collected through field ethnographic research using the method of video studies (Lefstein, Snell, 2014). This research has shown that Czech teachers are strongly biased in favour of dialogic teaching and consider it an ideal way of educational communication, but their real communication techniques are far from this ideal – teachers ask close questions of low cognitive demandingness; pupils' contributions to the communication are very short; no discussion takes place as the IRF structure (Mehan, 1979) is continuously maintained. |
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