Description
The aim of the workshop is to discover, through sharing analytic insights about extended sequences of child-teacher interactions, how teaching and learning is collaboratively achieved through talk-in-interaction. We will discuss how the methods of conversation analysis can be used to uncover the practices of pedagogy in early learning environments. Video recordings of interactions between young children and teachers in various environmental contexts are the data. We will explore how participation frameworks are established, how question-answer sequences are managed and how children’s rights to talk can be facilitated by teachers. We will pay close attention to how contiguity is achieved (or not) in next actions, with a view to how the child might be (or not) at the centre of child-centred learning. The concept of ‘sustained shared thinking’ is valued in early childhood education yet is seldom explicated; participants in this workshop will identify how this concept might be practically achieved.Workshop facilitators: Amelia Church is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on child peer and child–teacher interactions, with an interest in how responsive engagement is collaboratively built in early learning environments.
Amanda Bateman uses conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis to investigate children’s social interactions in their everyday lives with peers, adults and immediate environment. Amanda currently works as Associate Professor and Director at the Early Years Research Centre, University of Waikato.
| Period | 26 Jun 2023 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Brisbane, Australia, QueenslandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |