Vibrancy and Stillness in Talking School Discourse: Examining Embodied Talk in a Primary Classroom

Autor/in	Kontovourki, Stavroula
Titel	Vibrancy and Stillness in Talking School Discourse: Examining Embodied Talk in a Primary Classroom
Quelle	In: Literacy, 56 (2022) 3, S.234-243 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kontovourki, Stavroula)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-4350
DOI	10.1111/lit.12296
Schlagwörter	Classroom Communication; Elementary School Students; Public Schools; Classroom Techniques; Grade 2; Foreign Countries; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassengespräch; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Klassenführung; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Ausland; Zypern
Abstract	This paper complicates oracy by attending to moments of vibrancy and stillness in a public school classroom, where children were expected to follow particular rules that governed their bodily movement and language use. I argue that children's talk in classrooms cannot be separated from the making of meaning at the intersection of human bodies, materials and immaterial forces, including discourses of schooling and schooled literacy. To do so, I utilise teacher interviews and video-recorded observations from a second grade classroom in the Republic of Cyprus, and analyse those drawing on an understanding of talk as embodied: as occurring through bodies, as part of and in conjunction with bodily movement, regulated and regulating, and yet not fully determining what being a child-learner in a classroom means. I present findings from this analysis in three interrelated moves as I connect talk and silence to local classroom rules, to discourses of literacy and schooling that discipline the (talking) body, and to the contingency of embodied talk in a particular classroom event. ?his multilayered reading provides insights into the ways in which oracy is part of an assemblage that, among others, brings together and pulls apart teachers' and children's talk, institutional discourses, and always already vibrant bodies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01