Pjil;
During my professional journey I have experienced many aspects of the special
education field, on such step was as a 'behavioral specialist' with special
education students expected to have full day regular education experiences.
One of the things I did was to record at least one verbal intereaction my
particular students had each class period. This practice stemmed from a
previous exercise I used to conduct with nonverbal autistic students but
wasn't necessary helpful once I started with students who didn't have the
communication deficits that autistic students display.
My point is that as the year went I started to notice the development and
genesis of these verbal interactions to represent something beyond the
immediate environement but represented more of the overall culture of the
school. About this time [1995] is when I began my search for a more robust
explanation then the operant and behavioral strategies I had been using.
It could be possible to then say that the context of the dialogue you charted
could be viewed as authentic, it just needs history for the genesis of the
context to become clearer, maybe?
eric
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