'Seeing with poet's eyes': dialogic valuing of the local, the everyday and the personal. (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyd, Maureen P.; Janicki-Gechoff, Emma
• Is Part Of: Language and education. Volume 34:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Dialogic pedagogy -- dialogic space -- dialogic stance -- poetry; Language and education -- Periodicals; Native language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Children -- Language -- Periodicals; 407.105
• DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2019.1684939
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-0782

Abstract

Abstract: This paper defines the notion of dialogic local space and highlights its importance to teaching and learning. A dialogic local space values multiple local realities as it invites us to listen to, take up, and have confidence in our own local everyday and personal realities, and to listen to, consider, and respond to other local realities. This openness can deepen and widen how we know and see our own realities. We show what a dialogic local space can look like in a second grade classroom community. We employ sociocultural discourse analysis to illuminate one teacher's pedagogical choices in a month-long poetry Writing Workshop unit for seven-and-eight year olds. We present a big picture look at the unit and then take a close look at five minilessons. Findings detail ways this teacher's minilesson design, flow, and content cultivate dialogic local spaces, and how a dialogic stance, manifest in classroom talk practices, encourages students to participate in these spaces.