EDITORIAL (Ondrej Kaščák) ARTICLES Melissa Andrade-Molina: The Adventure of the Deceitful Numbers Jana Sedláčková: Approaches Applied by Mothers of First Graders to Dealing with their Perceived Reading Difficulties Zuzana Danišková,... more
EDITORIAL (Ondrej Kaščák)
ARTICLES
Melissa Andrade-Molina: The Adventure of the Deceitful Numbers
Jana Sedláčková: Approaches Applied by Mothers of First Graders to Dealing with their Perceived Reading Difficulties
Zuzana Danišková, Ivan Lukšík: Primary Teachers Go Beyond the Slovak National Curriculum
Luciana Benincasa: Word Problems and Make-believe: Using Frame Analysis and Ethnomethodology to Explore Aspects of the Culture of Schooling
Kate Berniz, Andrew Miller: English Language Support: A Dialogical Multi-literacies Approach to Teaching Students from CALD Backgrounds
ARTICLES
Melissa Andrade-Molina: The Adventure of the Deceitful Numbers
Jana Sedláčková: Approaches Applied by Mothers of First Graders to Dealing with their Perceived Reading Difficulties
Zuzana Danišková, Ivan Lukšík: Primary Teachers Go Beyond the Slovak National Curriculum
Luciana Benincasa: Word Problems and Make-believe: Using Frame Analysis and Ethnomethodology to Explore Aspects of the Culture of Schooling
Kate Berniz, Andrew Miller: English Language Support: A Dialogical Multi-literacies Approach to Teaching Students from CALD Backgrounds
Research Interests: Critical Pedagogy, Social Studies Education, Educational Inequalities (class; race; gender etc), Self-Determination Theory, Education for Citizenship, and 26 moreEthnomethodology, Academic Literacies, Academic literacy, Multiliteracies, School culture, Educational Inequality, Parental Involvement in Education, Citizenship Education, Global Citizenship Education, Multiliteracies Pedagogy, Academic literacy/English for academic purposes, Frame Analysis, Country ranking, Parental involvement, Reading difficulties, Parental Involvement in Early Childhood to Improve Literacy, Screening and Early Identification of Reading Difficulties, Democracy and Citizenship Education, Chilean Education, Schooling, Neoliberalism and Education, Education in Chile, Private Schools, First Grade, Citizenship Education Syllabus for Upper Primary Schools, and Citizenship Education Syllabus
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ABSTRACT This paper describes instances of teaching preschool children about diversity among human groups, as it has taken place in some kindergartens in a Greek town. The focus is on the categories used and on the way they are proposed,... more
ABSTRACT This paper describes instances of teaching preschool children about diversity among human groups, as it has taken place in some kindergartens in a Greek town. The focus is on the categories used and on the way they are proposed, questioned, accepted, refused or ...
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SUMMARY The study, carried out in a Greek provincial town, focuses on the cultural meaning of university education and of participation in the extremely competitive entrance examinations to university. In spite of graduate unemployment,... more
SUMMARY The study, carried out in a Greek provincial town, focuses on the cultural meaning of university education and of participation in the extremely competitive entrance examinations to university. In spite of graduate unemployment, in relation to the labour market a ...
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Ένα eρeυνητικό eρωτηματολόγιο μπορeί να eμπeριέχeι ισχυρισμούς, έστω άρρητους, για τη φύση του κόσμου, για τον άνθρωπο και για τη θέση του στον κόσμο. Στο βαθμό που αυτοί οι άρρητοι ισχυρισμοί eίναι διαδeδομένοι σe μια ομάδα ανθρώπων,... more
Ένα eρeυνητικό eρωτηματολόγιο μπορeί να eμπeριέχeι ισχυρισμούς, έστω άρρητους, για τη φύση του κόσμου, για τον άνθρωπο και για τη θέση του στον κόσμο. Στο βαθμό που αυτοί οι άρρητοι ισχυρισμοί eίναι διαδeδομένοι σe μια ομάδα ανθρώπων, δηλαδή eίναι πολιτισμικοί, το eρωτηματολόγιο που τους πeριέχeι μπορeί να χαρακτηριστeί «πολιτισμικό προϊόν». Ως τέτοιο λοιπόν δeν μπορeί να θeωρηθeί ουδέτeρο eργαλeίο συλλογής δeδομένων. Μέσα από τα eρωτήματα που υποβάλλονται, ο eρωτώμeνος ή η eρωτώμeνη έρχeται σe eπαφή μe ένα συγκeκριμένο τρόπο οργάνωσης της πραγματικότητας. Μe αυτή την έννοια η συμπλήρωση του eρωτηματολογίου αποτeλeί μια μαθησιακή κατάσταση. Τι συμβαίνeι, όταν ένα eρeυνητικό (…) Θeματικές eπικeφαλίδeς Αλληλeπίδραση στην eκπαίδeυση Πολυπολιτισμική eκπαίδeυση Eκπαίδeυση -- Έρeυνα Eρωτηματολόγια
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ABSTRACT This paper is about people’s relationship to laws, rules and regulations in a Greek town. The aim is to describe specific traffic policies, point out the underlying pedagogical assumptions and assess their potential effect in... more
ABSTRACT This paper is about people’s relationship to laws, rules and regulations in a Greek town. The aim is to describe specific traffic policies, point out the underlying pedagogical assumptions and assess their potential effect in relation to the goals of a democratic education. The study springs from the author’s experience as a non-native inhabitant of Greece. It is the result of daily, 15-year-long participant observation. Faced with drivers who disregard most rules of the Highway Code, especially concerning parking, the authorities in a Greek town have screwed traffic devices to the ground. Functioning like obstacles, such devices are designed to make violations materially impossible. I argue that this policy eventually teaches people not to respect traffic regulations and rules in general, thus being in conflict with the goals of a democratic education. Keywords: democratic education; enforcement of traffic rules; traffic devices; material obstacles; pedagogical approach
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Adopting a voluntaristic approach, this paper aims to highlight the creativity of social actors. My objectives are (a) to examine examples of the dominant meritocratic narrative in students’ interview discourse and (b) to present an... more
Adopting a voluntaristic approach, this paper aims to highlight the creativity of social actors. My objectives are (a) to examine examples of the dominant meritocratic narrative in students’ interview discourse and (b) to present an example of the way in this same narrative is challenged by other student narratives. I use two types of data from student culture: (a) excerpts from newspaper interviews with students, referred to as the “first of the first”, who were admitted with the highest marks to very prestigious university departments and (b) a well-known student saying about achievement. The students’ interview discourse resounds with the ideology of effort, described as the road to success and endorsed by educational and political authorities alike. The saying in question, on the other hand, proposes a very different narrative, according to which success is the result of cheating. More than being just different, this alternative narrative openly questions and even ridicules offi...
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Η παρούσα εργασία ανήκει στην περιορισμένη, ακόμα, παράδοση ποιοτικής έρευνας για την αντιγραφή στο πανεπιστήμιο. Στόχος είναι να αναδειχθούν η παρουσία και η χρήση των εννοιών «κόπος» και «προσπάθεια» στο λόγο φοιτητών και φοιτητριών για... more
Η παρούσα εργασία ανήκει στην περιορισμένη, ακόμα, παράδοση ποιοτικής έρευνας για την αντιγραφή στο πανεπιστήμιο. Στόχος είναι να αναδειχθούν η παρουσία και η χρήση των εννοιών «κόπος» και «προσπάθεια» στο λόγο φοιτητών και φοιτητριών για την αντιγραφή στις εξετάσεις. Τα δεδομένα αποτελούνται από 17 ημι-δομημένες συνεντεύξεις με φοιτητές και φοιτήτριες από ένα ελληνικό επαρχιακό πανεπιστήμιο. Υιοθετείται μια κοινωνική-κονστρουξιονιστική προσέγγιση, που θεωρεί την ομιλία μορφή κοινωνικής δράσης. Στην ανάλυση και ερμηνεία των δεδομένων υιοθετείται μία πολιτισμική προσέγγιση βασισμένη στη συμβολική ανθρωπολογία και, ειδικότερα, στην έννοια «σενάριο-κλειδί» όπως την έχει επεξεργαστεί η Sherry Ortner. Κεντρικά σύμβολα σε μία κοινωνία, τα «σενάρια-κλειδιά συμπυκνώνουν πολιτισμικά σημαντικούς στόχους και υπαγορεύουν τις (πολιτισμικά αποδεκτές) στρατηγικές για την επίτευξή τους. Τα ευρήματα δείχνουν ότι στο λόγο των ερωτώμενων κυριαρχούν (α) ένα σενάριο που εξαίρει το στόχο της απόκτησης πτ...
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In this qualitative study of school discourse on national day commemorations, focus is on the "social creativity strategies" through which group members can improve their social identity. Discourse analysis was carried out on... more
In this qualitative study of school discourse on national day commemorations, focus is on the "social creativity strategies" through which group members can improve their social identity. Discourse analysis was carried out on thirty-nine teachers' speeches delivered in Greek schools between 1998 and 2004. The speakers scorn rationality and logic, stereotypically attributed to "the West" (a "West" which is perceived not to include Greece), as cold and not human. The Greeks' successful national struggles are presented instead as the result of irrationality. They claim irrationality to be the most human and thus the most valuable quality, which places Greece first in the world hierarchy. The results are further discussed in terms of their implications for learning and teaching in the classroom, as well as for policy and research.
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This paper is about Greek university students’ violation of the smoking law in public venues and their understanding of rights, duties and responsibilities. Thirty-one students (21 smokers) were interviewed and asked to describe and... more
This paper is about Greek university students’ violation of the smoking law in public venues and their understanding of rights, duties and responsibilities. Thirty-one students (21 smokers) were interviewed and asked to describe and discuss their own and other students’ behaviour in relation to smoking in closed public places in terms of rights and duties. Additional material from the printed and electronic press has been used to provide a context to the students’ statements. Participant-smokers’ systematic violations of the smoke-free law spring from a peculiar view of rights, duties and responsibilities. Both behaviour and its theoretical underpinnings are reinforced in the context of the students’ leisure time “community of practice.” All those involved, that is, cafe owners/staff, customers and law-enforcers, contribute to encouraging smoking by rewarding those who violate the law and discouraging law-abiding behaviours. The authorities in charge usually avoid monitoring public ...
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This paper has a double aim: (a) to approach a stereotype of the nation as overgeneralization and obstacle to intercultural communication and (b) to suggest ways to start to “escape” from stereotypical thinking. The first aim is pursued... more
This paper has a double aim: (a) to approach a stereotype of the nation as overgeneralization and obstacle to intercultural communication and (b) to suggest ways to start to “escape” from stereotypical thinking. The first aim is pursued through a comparison between two conceptualizations of the level of “programming” of the human mind: (a) Hofstede’s model of the “software” of the human mind and (b) a stereotype of the Greek nation widely used in schools, as it is presented in the literature. Both constitute theories of the patterns of thinking, feeling and potential acting among the members of nation. The first (scientific) theory is explicitly articulated on three levels: individual, group and human nature. The stereotype of the nation may be viewed as a folk theory. Meant to serve the management of everyday life, it does not have to be explicitly formulated or satisfy the requirements of a scientific theory. The school stereotype was subject to thematic analysis. The comparison...
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Ένα eρeυνητικό eρωτηματολόγιο μπορeί να eμπeριέχeι ισχυρισμούς, έστω άρρητους, για τη φύση του κόσμου, για τον άνθρωπο και για τη θέση του στον κόσμο. Στο βαθμό που αυτοί οι άρρητοι ισχυρισμοί eίναι διαδeδομένοι σe μια ομάδα ανθρώπων,... more
Ένα eρeυνητικό eρωτηματολόγιο μπορeί να eμπeριέχeι ισχυρισμούς, έστω άρρητους, για τη φύση του κόσμου, για τον άνθρωπο και για τη θέση του στον κόσμο. Στο βαθμό που αυτοί οι άρρητοι ισχυρισμοί eίναι διαδeδομένοι σe μια ομάδα ανθρώπων, δηλαδή eίναι πολιτισμικοί, το eρωτηματολόγιο που τους πeριέχeι μπορeί να χαρακτηριστeί «πολιτισμικό προϊόν». Ως τέτοιο λοιπόν δeν μπορeί να θeωρηθeί ουδέτeρο eργαλeίο συλλογής δeδομένων. Μέσα από τα eρωτήματα που υποβάλλονται, ο eρωτώμeνος ή η eρωτώμeνη έρχeται σe eπαφή μe ένα συγκeκριμένο τρόπο οργάνωσης της πραγματικότητας. Μe αυτή την έννοια η συμπλήρωση του eρωτηματολογίου αποτeλeί μια μαθησιακή κατάσταση. Τι συμβαίνeι, όταν ένα eρeυνητικό (…) Θeματικές eπικeφαλίδeς Αλληλeπίδραση στην eκπαίδeυση Πολυπολιτισμική eκπαίδeυση Eκπαίδeυση -- Έρeυνα Eρωτηματολόγια
Κατά κάποιον τρόπο η eργασία αυτή συμπληρώνeι προηγούμeνη μeλέτη πeρίπτωσης μιας τeλeτής eπιβράβeυσης μαθητών, στην οποία πήρα μέρος ο Έλληνας Υπουργός Παιδeίας και Θρησκeυμάτων κ. E. Στυλιανίδης, καθώς και άλλα δυο υψηλόβαθμα στeλέχη της... more
Κατά κάποιον τρόπο η eργασία αυτή συμπληρώνeι προηγούμeνη μeλέτη πeρίπτωσης μιας τeλeτής eπιβράβeυσης μαθητών, στην οποία πήρα μέρος ο Έλληνας Υπουργός Παιδeίας και Θρησκeυμάτων κ. E. Στυλιανίδης, καθώς και άλλα δυο υψηλόβαθμα στeλέχη της eκπαίδeυσης, τον Ιανουάριο 2008 στα Ιωάννινα (Benincasa, 2009β). Οι ομιλίeς προτeίνουν ένα βασικό «σeνάριο» που αποτeλeίται από στόχους και από στρατηγικές για την eπίτeυξή τους. Eξαίροντας την αριστeία, την πρωτιά και την eπιτυχία, οι τρeις αυτοί ομιλητές προσφέρουν την eρμηνeία τους σχeτικά μe τα μέσα και τις στρατηγικές που eπέτρeψαν στους βραβeυμένους μαθητές και μαθήτριeς να πeτύχουν την υψηλή βαθμολογία. Αυτές φέρονται να eίναι κυρίως (…) Θeματικές eπικeφαλίδeς Eκπαίδeυση και κράτος Eπιβραβeύσeις και τιμωρίeς στην eκπαίδeυση Κριτική ανάλυση λόγου
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The paper applies Goffman’s frame analysis and ethnomethodology to student performance on mathematical word problems. In educational research, frame analysis has usually been limited to primary frames. Instead, in this paper I focus on... more
The paper applies Goffman’s frame analysis and ethnomethodology to student performance on mathematical word problems. In educational research, frame analysis has usually been limited to primary frames. Instead, in this paper I focus on the kind of secondary frame that Goffman calls ‘utilitarian make-believe’. The data consist of a fragment of verbal interaction between a teacher and a 12-year-old pupil during an oral mathematics exam. By evoking the idea of ‘as-ifness’, word problems introduce pupils to a make-believe world. The text consists only of ‘filler words’ because what really matters are the figures. Word problems and possibly other aspects of schooling can be interpreted in terms of a utilitarian make-believe key. Readiness to adopt this make-believe frame when required may be the difference between school success and failure. I argue that maths achievement takes more than just ‘being good with numbers’. It is a joint enterprise of people interacting within a culturally-sh...
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ABSTRACT This paper is about people’s relationship to laws, rules and regulations in a Greek town. The aim is to describe specific traffic policies, point out the underlying pedagogical assumptions and assess their potential effect in... more
ABSTRACT This paper is about people’s relationship to laws, rules and regulations in a Greek town. The aim is to describe specific traffic policies, point out the underlying pedagogical assumptions and assess their potential effect in relation to the goals of a democratic education. The study springs from the author’s experience as a non-native inhabitant of Greece. It is the result of daily, 15-year-long participant observation. Faced with drivers who disregard most rules of the Highway Code, especially concerning parking, the authorities in a Greek town have screwed traffic devices to the ground. Functioning like obstacles, such devices are designed to make violations materially impossible. I argue that this policy eventually teaches people not to respect traffic regulations and rules in general, thus being in conflict with the goals of a democratic education. Keywords: democratic education; enforcement of traffic rules; traffic devices; material obstacles; pedagogical approach
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ABSTRACT This paper describes instances of teaching preschool children about diversity among human groups, as it has taken place in some kindergartens in a Greek town. The focus is on the categories used and on the way they are proposed,... more
ABSTRACT This paper describes instances of teaching preschool children about diversity among human groups, as it has taken place in some kindergartens in a Greek town. The focus is on the categories used and on the way they are proposed, questioned, accepted, refused or ...
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SUMMARY The study, carried out in a Greek provincial town, focuses on the cultural meaning of university education and of participation in the extremely competitive entrance examinations to university. In spite of graduate unemployment,... more
SUMMARY The study, carried out in a Greek provincial town, focuses on the cultural meaning of university education and of participation in the extremely competitive entrance examinations to university. In spite of graduate unemployment, in relation to the labour market a ...
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