Re: teaching

Timothy Koschmann (tkoschmann who-is-at siumed.edu)
Fri, 31 May 1996 10:03:19 -0500

>Tim, this is precisely what I found when I studied small group discussions
>of literature in high school English classes. The patterns of discourse in
>teacher-led discussions set the patterns for the small group discussions.
>When teachers dominated discussions, the students had very few resources for
>engaging in discussion themselves and were perfunctory in their response to
>the stories. When teachers engaged the students in joint activity--that is,
>using their role as "leader" to encourage students to elaborate their
>contributions--the students engaged in more elaborated small group discussions.

Thank you, Peter, I will look for these references. ---Tim

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