TY - JOUR
T1 - The teacher scheme for educational dialogue analysis (T-SEDA)
T2 - developing a research-based observation tool for supporting teacher inquiry into pupils’ participation in classroom dialogue
AU - Vrikki, Maria
AU - Kershner, Ruth
AU - Calcagni, Elisa
AU - Hennessy, Sara
AU - Lee, Lisa
AU - Hernández, Flora
AU - Estrada, Nube
AU - Ahmed, Farah
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to all of the originators of SEDA (listed along with a link to the full original scheme at http://tinyurl.com/BAdialogue) and to our sponsor, the British Academy. Thanks are also extended to the teachers who participated in our trials and to the anonymous peer reviewers who commented on an earlier draft of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/3/15
Y1 - 2019/3/15
N2 - In this paper we examine two systematic observation methods intended to be used by pre-service and in-service teachers to help increase their awareness of children's participation in productive classroom dialogue. We identify the affordances of these methods for supporting teachers’ reflective practice, focusing in this case on students’ equitable participation in science groupwork activities. This involves the use of Teacher-SEDA (T-SEDA), a sub-scheme of SEDA (Cam-UNAM Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis), which was empirically trialled by a mixed group of researchers and teachers, using video-recordings from primary science classrooms in the UK and Mexico. The T-SEDA trials reported in this paper compare a ‘simulated live’ approach based on time-sampling techniques, with a ‘follow-up analysis’ approach, which uses audio-recordings and transcripts. The findings suggest that using either technique regularly can aid teachers in noticing classroom events and adjusting teaching accordingly. The ‘live’ coding approach appears to be the more practical method that teachers could use to audit the development of classroom equitable participation. However, the follow-up analysis emerged as a more informative approach, shedding light on more ambiguous cases of relative participation.
AB - In this paper we examine two systematic observation methods intended to be used by pre-service and in-service teachers to help increase their awareness of children's participation in productive classroom dialogue. We identify the affordances of these methods for supporting teachers’ reflective practice, focusing in this case on students’ equitable participation in science groupwork activities. This involves the use of Teacher-SEDA (T-SEDA), a sub-scheme of SEDA (Cam-UNAM Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis), which was empirically trialled by a mixed group of researchers and teachers, using video-recordings from primary science classrooms in the UK and Mexico. The T-SEDA trials reported in this paper compare a ‘simulated live’ approach based on time-sampling techniques, with a ‘follow-up analysis’ approach, which uses audio-recordings and transcripts. The findings suggest that using either technique regularly can aid teachers in noticing classroom events and adjusting teaching accordingly. The ‘live’ coding approach appears to be the more practical method that teachers could use to audit the development of classroom equitable participation. However, the follow-up analysis emerged as a more informative approach, shedding light on more ambiguous cases of relative participation.
KW - Analytic tool
KW - classroom observation
KW - educational dialogue
KW - equitable participation
KW - reflective practice
KW - teacher inquiry
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047495671&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1743727X.2018.1467890
DO - 10.1080/1743727X.2018.1467890
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047495671
SN - 1743-727X
VL - 42
SP - 185
EP - 203
JO - International Journal of Research and Method in Education
JF - International Journal of Research and Method in Education
IS - 2
ER -