Kikan-Shido:Between Desks Instruction
Kikan-Shido:Between Desks Instruction
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Kikan-Shido:办公桌之间的说明
DOI:
10.1163/9789087901639_005
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
D. Clarke
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作者:
Catherine O’Keefe;Lihua Xu;D. Clarke
By examining classroom practice over sequences of ten lessons, the Learner’s Perspective Study provides data on the teacher’s and learners’ participation in the co-construction of the possible forms of participation through which classroom practice is constituted. The use of post-lesson video-stimulated interviews offers additional insight into participants’ intentions, actions and interpretations. This paper first postulates the existence of co-constructed whole class patterns of participation and then documents one such pattern of participation: Kikan-Shido (between desks instruction), both as it is enacted and as it is perceived by the classroom participants. In this case, the documented pattern of participation is also associated with a recognizable Lesson Event: Having a form that recurs in the mathematics classrooms of many countries, but serving a variety of different functions across those classrooms. This paper details the use of Kikan-Shido in three Australian classrooms, and makes comparison with its occurrence in mathematics classrooms in China, Japan and the USA. In each case, the lesson event, Kikan-Shido, can be identified with a locallyenacted pattern of participation to which teacher and students subscribe and which teacher and student have agency to exploit and to shape. While the form of Kikan-Shido has universal features, its function in each classroom provides the basis for an informative comparison of those classrooms practices. INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF CLASSROOM PRACTICE The practices of classrooms are the most evident institutionalized means by which the policies of a nation’s educational system are put into effect. Given this, the classroom seems a sensible place to look for explanations and consequences of the differences and similarities identified in international comparative studies of curriculum, teaching practice, and student achievement (see Clarke, 2003a). Within the specific focus of classroom practice, the central problem of international comparative research translates into: Are there nationally-specific characteristics of classroom practice? How best might the practices of classrooms be compared internationally if our purpose is to inform those practices?