Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

✍ Scribed by Arnetha F. Ball, Sarah Warshauer Freedman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Contributed by authors who write from various disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book clarify the learning theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and address the application of his concepts to contemporary issues. In addition, the authors are joined by other scholars in a Bakhtinian dialogue. Together, they address questions that readers may have about Bakhtinian theory and its application to everyday teaching practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
PART I IDEOLOGIES IN DIALOGUE......Page 15
1 Ideological Becoming......Page 17
DEFINING IDEOLOGICAL BECOMING......Page 18
HOW IDEOLOGICAL BECOMING RELATES TO LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND LEARNING......Page 20
OUR RESEARCH IN CROSS-NATIONAL CONTEXTS......Page 23
Rwanda......Page 35
Bosnia-Herzegovina......Page 39
CONCLUSION......Page 42
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS BOOK......Page 43
References......Page 44
2 Dewey and Bakhtin in Dialogue......Page 48
DEWEY AND ROSENBLATT......Page 50
TURNING TO BAKHTIN......Page 56
CONCLUSION: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 60
References......Page 65
3 Intertextualities......Page 67
References......Page 78
4 The Teaching of Academic Language to Minority Second Language Learners......Page 80
THE SCHOLARLY DIALOGUE ON ACADEMIC LANGUAGE......Page 81
The Dialogue about Standard English......Page 83
The Dialogue About English Only......Page 84
Communities of Professional Practice......Page 85
RESEARCH COMMUNITIES......Page 91
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS: WHICH VOICES AND WHICH COMMUNICATION SPHERES?......Page 95
THE FIRST STEP......Page 98
Moving Beyond BICS and CALP......Page 99
IMAGINING OTHER POSSIBILITIES......Page 103
References......Page 104
Voices in Dialogue......Page 113
DIALOGUES IN ACTION......Page 114
DIALOGUES AND IDEOLOGICAL BECOMING......Page 116
References......Page 117
PART II VOICED, DOUBLE VOICED, AND MULTIVOICED DISCOURSES IN OUR SCHOOLS......Page 119
5 Performance as the Foundation for a Secondary School Literacy Program......Page 121
BAKHTIN: FOUR KEY CONCEPTS......Page 122
FOUR KEY CONCEPTS: CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS......Page 124
THE ARTSLITERACY PROJECT......Page 129
CREATING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE......Page 131
Membership in an Ensemble......Page 132
Receptivity......Page 134
Personal and Social Development......Page 136
CONCLUSION......Page 137
References......Page 140
6 Double Voiced Discourse......Page 143
DOUBLED-VOICED DISCOURSE......Page 149
CONCLUSION......Page 155
APPENDIX A......Page 156
References......Page 159
7 Narratives of Rethinking......Page 162
BAKHTIN’S THEORIES OF VOICING......Page 164
Reader/Student Voicing......Page 166
Textual/Author Voicing......Page 167
SETTING FOR THE STUDY......Page 168
First Composition......Page 169
First Discussion......Page 171
Second Composition......Page 174
Second Discussion......Page 176
Third Composition......Page 179
DISCUSSION......Page 181
References......Page 184
8 Ever Newer Ways to Mean......Page 186
A BAKHTINIAN FRAMEWORK FOR REFLECTING ON INQUIRY-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 187
An Inquiry-Based Learning Environment for Secondary Teachers......Page 189
Talking and Learning Through Case Inquiry: Teachers Voices in Dialogue......Page 191
TEACHERS’ VOICES IN REFLECTION ON STUDENTS, READING, AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES......Page 198
Teachers’ Initial Views of Students and Their Abilities......Page 199
Teachers’ Initial Classroom Practices: Students’ Roles, Social Participation, and Interaction with Texts......Page 200
Appropriating Discourses, Authoring Change: Apprenticing Students to New Literate Practices......Page 202
Learning from Students, Authoring a New Pedagogical Self: An Illustration......Page 207
Evolving Pedagogies: Engaging Students in Literate Practices......Page 208
Fostering New Literate Selves: Learning as the Appropriation of Dialogic Literacy Practices......Page 209
AUTHORING PEDAGOGICAL CHANGE IN DIALOGICAL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS......Page 211
References......Page 213
Voices in Dialogue......Page 217
Cynthia Greenleaf and Mira Katz: Constructing a Professional Discourse......Page 218
Greenleaf and Katz provided an extensive response to these queries......Page 219
Christian Knoeller: Narrative of Rethinking......Page 220
Landay: Literacy Development and the Performing Arts......Page 221
Carol Lee: Cultural Modeling......Page 222
References......Page 224
PART III HETEROGLOSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD......Page 225
INTRODUCTION......Page 227
NEW TEACHERS FOR NEW TIMES......Page 228
THE CHRONOTOPE AND THE CLASSROOM......Page 231
DIALOGIC TEACHING AND LEARNING......Page 236
NEW-CENTURY SCHOOLING......Page 244
References......Page 245
10 Is Contradiction Contrary?......Page 246
The Social Genesis of Discourse and Thought......Page 247
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES......Page 248
INSIGHTS FROM ASSESSMENT......Page 250
THE STUDY......Page 251
Voices Coexisting......Page 254
Innate ability/social construction......Page 257
Assessment reflects achievement/assessment sits apart from achievement......Page 260
Assessment is impartial/assessment is constructed and partial......Page 262
DISCUSSION......Page 264
References......Page 265
11 A Bakhtinian Perspective on Learning to Read and Write Late in Life......Page 266
USING BAKHTINIAN NOTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE FOR THINKING ABOUT LITERACY DEVELOPMENT......Page 268
THE PLACE, THE PROJECT, AND THE PARTICIPANTS......Page 272
CARMEN’S PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE......Page 277
TRANSFORMING POSITIONS THROUGH PARTICIPATING IN LITERACY EVENTS......Page 281
LITERACY LEARNING AS REEVALUATED MEANING......Page 289
References......Page 291
OLD LITERACIES......Page 293
THE NEW CAPITALISM......Page 297
Identities......Page 298
Networks......Page 299
Millennials......Page 300
BLUE’S CLUES......Page 301
Boomers vs. Millennials......Page 304
Shape-Shifting Portfolio People......Page 306
Diverse Millennials......Page 307
A Note on Learning in the New Capitalist World......Page 309
Schools and Schooling in the New Capitalism......Page 310
BAKHTINIAN THOUGHTS......Page 312
References......Page 317
Voices in Dialogue......Page 321
References......Page 327
PART IV A CLOSING THOUGHT ON BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVES......Page 329
13 The Process of Ideological Becoming......Page 331
AUTHORITY AND TESTING......Page 332
OUR OWN AUTHORITATIVE WORDS......Page 334
DIALOGUE, LAUGHTER, SURPRISE......Page 336
AUTHENTICITY AND DISAGREEMENT......Page 338
TRANSLATION......Page 340
LANGUAGES AND LEARNING......Page 341
SCHOOLS AND SCREAMING FITS......Page 342
NOTHING CONCLUSIVE......Page 344
Author Index......Page 347
Subject Index......Page 353