Re: [xmca] Assistance needed

[ulvi icil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com>]

Sorry, I understood it as passing to written language from oral language.
It seems to be some kind of coding.

I did not do such a job before.

Regards

Ulvi



2012/11/6 Derek Patton <derekpatton19@gmail.com>

> Dear Friends,
> I am looking for someone who can code transcripts of conversations in a
> Preschool setting. This is for my PhD dissertation on Sustained Shared
> Thinking which is a special sort of ZPD where a teacher has constructed a
> classroom culture of thinking spaces through dialogue and the children's
> minds are engaged in thinking. This is a paying job and requires probably
> 50
> - 100 hours of work and needs to be done by Christmas. There are training
> documents and practice transcripts where the intercoder can find out if
> they
> have reached the level of ability to proceed into the main work. Research
> assistant level of pay rate, negotiable.
>
> Preschool dialogue influencing children's thinking
>
> The dialogues to be coded are 5 different preschool teachers interacting
> with 3 - 6 children in 3 activities of story book reading, a
> writing/drawing
> exercise, and one selected by the teacher. The main construct under
> investigation is Sustained Shared Thinking (SST) which is defined as a
> series of turns where child thinking is valued, visible, and actively
> promoted by the teacher while engaged in: a) scaffolding or extending ideas
> or concepts; b) discussing or exploring events or experiences; c) modelling
> language or behaviour; d) using language or ideas playfully or creatively.
> The teacher is usually challenging or expanding children's thinking through
> questions, acknowledgements, hints, or examples. Coding the SSTs includes
> who started the episode and who leads it (child or teacher), as well as how
> long the episode goes in terms of turns taken. The entire dialogue is also
> coded for a variety of types of questions and acknowledgments, for example
> different kinds of open, closed and statement questions. A second and
> deeper
> level of dialogue analysis includes coding for Gricean Maxims(Paul Grice)
> and blended spaces (Fauconnier & Turner). There are separate training and
> practice documents for both first and second level coding, so that either
> can be undertaken separately. The transcripts represent about 100 minutes
> of
> dialogue.
>
> SST - (Siraj-Blatchford, Sylva, Muttock, Gilden, & Bell, 2002)
> Visible thinking - (Ritchhart & Perkins, 2005)
> Gricean Maxims - (Grice, 2002/1967, 2008/1978)
> Blending space - (Fauconnier & Turner, 1996, 2002)
>
> Thanks for any help also in finding someone who matches this interest of
> mine.
> Contact me directly at derekpatton19@gmail.com cheers derek
>
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