Retrospective Study of a Dialogic Elementary Classroom

<p>This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom with analysis of students’ retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment interactions and authority. </p><p>Through this retrospective methodology the text offers valuable insight into the long-term impacts of discursive practices on young learners’ attitudes to learning and their educational trajectories. Analysis also serves to further understandings of how the classroom environment can function as a living dialogue in which authority in respect to talk knowledge sharing and curricular choices serves as an interactional accomplishment and means of social justice. </p><p>This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in classroom discourse and critical pedagogy. It will be of particular interest to those with a focus on elementary education. </p>