Agency, identity and imagination in an urban primary school in Southern Mexico
<p>This paper presents an ethnographic study of two studentteachers in a Mexican public primary school in a fifth-grade English-asa-Foreign-Language classroom. Typical of classroom ethnography, this study incorporates systematic observation, description, micro-analysis of events, and discourse...
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2012-04-01
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| description | <p>This paper presents an ethnographic study of two studentteachers in a Mexican public primary school in a fifth-grade English-asa-Foreign-Language classroom. Typical of classroom ethnography, this study incorporates systematic observation, description, micro-analysis of events, and discourse analysis. Utilizing a sociocultural perspective as a theoretical framework, the activities created by the two student-teachers are contrasted to the exercises and tasks prescribed in the official textbook. The analysis reveals that although the official textbook reflected a traditional, transmission-oriented pedagogy, the two student-teachers were able to adopt a socio constructivist and transformative teaching approach. They created activities that enabled their learners to work together through a variety of modes and to participate in a wide range of tasks that were relevant to their worlds beyond the classroom. </p><p>Key words: sociocultural theory, ethnography, identity, second language education.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b88b7b77a9524f488ce1bb70f59b6e122022-12-21T21:09:14ZporUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)Calidoscópio2177-62022012-04-0110111412410.4013/cld.2012.101.10720Agency, identity and imagination in an urban primary school in Southern MexicoMaria Dantas-Whitney0Angeles Clemente1Michael Higgins2Western Oregon UniversityUniversidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de OaxacaUniversidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca<p>This paper presents an ethnographic study of two studentteachers in a Mexican public primary school in a fifth-grade English-asa-Foreign-Language classroom. Typical of classroom ethnography, this study incorporates systematic observation, description, micro-analysis of events, and discourse analysis. Utilizing a sociocultural perspective as a theoretical framework, the activities created by the two student-teachers are contrasted to the exercises and tasks prescribed in the official textbook. The analysis reveals that although the official textbook reflected a traditional, transmission-oriented pedagogy, the two student-teachers were able to adopt a socio constructivist and transformative teaching approach. They created activities that enabled their learners to work together through a variety of modes and to participate in a wide range of tasks that were relevant to their worlds beyond the classroom. </p><p>Key words: sociocultural theory, ethnography, identity, second language education.</p>http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/1942 |
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