Producing of Heteroglossic Classroom (Micro)cultures Through Hybrid Discourse Practice
✍ Scribed by George Kamberelis
- Book ID
- 104353883
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-5898
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✦ Synopsis
In this article, I examine two different classroom events to construct a theoretical/ methodological argument for how hybrid discourse practices function to produce heteroglossic classroom (micro)cultures. These (micro)cultures constitute ``free spaces'' within which students and teachers are empowered to fuse authoritative and internally persuasive discourses as these constructs have been defined by Bakhtin. These fusions often function to promote the intellectual, social, and ideological development of students and teachers alike.
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. (Tom Stoppard, Arcadia)
Many theorists and researchers have recently argued that the analysis of classroom interaction must attend more closely to the social practices within which discourse is produced, distributed, and consumed (e.g., . Research spawned by these arguments has challenged the long-presumed homogeneity of classroom discourse implicit in the ubiquitous initiation ± response ± evaluation/follow-up (IRE/IRF) genre (e.g., Bloome &