Learning, Social Interaction and Diversity - Exploring Identities in School Practices -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. EXPLORING PRACTICES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES IN SCHOOL: An Introduction -- A MEETING OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN 2008 -- EXPLORING PRACTICES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES IN SCHOOL IN THREE THEMES -- Part 1: Constructing cultural identities -- Part 2: Constructing student identities -- Part 3: Constructing teacher identities -- REFERENCES -- 2. SCHOOLING AND SPACES FOR LEARNING: Cultural Dynamics and Student Participation and Agency -- INTRODUCTION -- TEACHING AND LEARNING AS INTERACTIONAL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- REFERENCES -- 3. BOUNDARY CROSSING EVENTS AND POTENTIAL APPROPRIATION SPACE IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE -- INTRODUCTION -- DIALOGICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATION -- TENSIONS IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING FRAMEWORK -- BOUNDARY CROSSING EVENTS AND POTENTIAL APPROPRIATION SPACE -- DATA, METHOD OF ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- BOUNDARY CROSSING EVENTS AND POTENTIAL APPROPRIATION SPACE -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- DISCUSSION AND OPENING -- APPENDIX: EXCERPTS IN ORIGINAL FRENCH LANGUAGE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4. RETHINKING ETHNIC MINORITY YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION IN MULTIPLE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS AND ITS IMPACT ON THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- Cultural Developmental Theory -- Dialogical Self Theory -- THE CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH -- The Schools and the Communities -- The Research Method -- The Analytical Framework -- THE ANALYSIS -- Pakistani school -- Greek school -- REVISITING BRONFENBRENNER'S MODEL TO ACCOUNT FOR THE MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS.

RETHINKING ETHNIC MINORITY YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION IN MULTIPLE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS AND ITS IMPACT ON THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES: A NEW MODEL -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- 5. MAKING SENSE OF HOMEWORK: PARENTAL RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL HOMEWORK IN MULTICULTURAL SETTINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDYING PARENTAL RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL HOMEWORK AND 'EDUCATION' -- Respondents -- Collecting and Analysing the Data -- ANALYSING RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING HOMEWORK -- Using 'the child' as a resource for understanding homework -- Using Cultural Models of Child Development as a Resource for Understanding Homework -- IN SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 6. ETHNIC CULTURAL LEGACIES AND LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A Social-Cultural Study in Taiwan -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT OF EFL IN TAIWAN -- ETHNIC CULTURES IN TAIWAN -- SOCIO-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO LEARNING -- METHODS -- The Four Participant Schools -- Research Instruments and Analysis -- PARENT'S ETHNIC AND CULTURAL CAPITAL -- EVERYDAY ACCESS TO ENGLISH -- ACCESS TO ENGLISH IN RELATION TO EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS -- PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE: USING ETHNIC CULTURE TO GIVE PUPILS ACCESS TO ENGLISH -- GOING BEYOND THE URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE -- TOWARDS A PEDAGOGY OF CULTURAL BRIDGING -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 7. CHALLENGING UNDERSTANDINGS OF BILINGUALISM IN THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES FROM THE LENS OF RESEARCH THAT FOCUSES SOCIAL PRACTICES -- INTRODUCTION -- (RE)SEARCH IN THE LANGUAGE AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES AND INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- Conceptual and Comparative Issues -- (RE)VISITING SOME STUDIES IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS -- SELECTIVE CONCEPTUALISATIONS -- Examples from the Language and the Educational Sciences Fields -- RESEARCH INTO SITUATED LANGUAGES-CUM-LITERACIES IN USE -- Concluding Reflections -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES.

8. SILENCE IS SILVER, TALK IS GOLD? ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM TALK IN A LEARNER CENTRED SETTING -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDENTS' PARTICIPATION IN CLASSROOM TALK: EFFECTS OF VERBALISATION ON KNOWLEDGE BUILDING -- General Considerations -- Effects of Questioning -- Effects of Argumentation -- METHODOLOGY -- Participants and location -- Communication analysis -- Knowledge Test -- RESULTS -- Students' Questions and Their Effects -- Argumentation Sequences and Their Effects -- CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION: ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD -- REFERENCES -- 9. SHAPING MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES AND INDEXING DEFICIENT BEHAVIOURS IN A SPECIAL NEEDS UNIT -- RESEARCH ON CHILDREN WITH SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES -- SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- SPATIAL, SOCIAL AND GENDERED ARRANGEMENTS WITHIN THE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SETTING -- Seating Arrangements during the Remedial Activity -- Record Keeping as a Categorization Practice -- Invoking a Contrastive Deviant Identity -- Intensified Category Work -- Removing and Adding Negative Category Affiliation -- Appropriating a Cumulative Identity -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 10. BEYOND TEACHING AND LEARNING - DISCIPLINING BOYS IN REMEDIAL CLASSES DURING THE 1960s IN SWEDEN -- INTRODUCTION -- A SCHOOL FOR ALL AND PUPILS IN NEED OF SPECIAL SUPPORT -- CORRECTIONS AND TEACHER - PUPIL INTERACTIONS IN CLASSROOM -- PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- DATA CORPUS -- ANALYSIS -- Explicit reprimands -- Admonitory reprimands -- PERSONAL REPRIMANDS OF AN INSULTING NATURE -- SOME CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 11.THE EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL ELECTRONIC BOOK ON THE EMERGENT LITERACY OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AT RISK FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- COMPUTERS AND EMERGENT LITERACY -- COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING FOR ENHANCING EMERGENT LITERACY AMONG CHILDREN AT RISK FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES.

READING E-BOOKS AS AN EMERGENT LITERACY EXPERIENCE -- EVALUATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL E-BOOK -- THE EXPERIMENT -- CAN E-BOOKS HELP CHILDREN AT RISK FOR LD? -- REFERENCES -- 12. VIDEO AS A POTENTIAL RESOURCE FOR STUDENT TEACHERS' AGENCY WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- Teacher Identity Formation as Sociocultural and Situated Processes -- Promoting Agency Work in Teacher Education -- THE STUDY -- Video case material -- Course Description -- DATA ANALYSIS -- RESULTS -- Pedagogical Knowledge of Teaching Mathematics -- Being a Mathematics Teacher -- Experiences as a Learner of Mathematics -- Experiences as a teacher -- Challenges to the teaching profession -- Methods and Materials for the Course -- Emotions and Personal Feelings about Mathematics Teaching and Learning -- Criticism of Educational Technology -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 13. HOW DYNAMIC PATTERNS OF TEACHER-CHILD INTERACTION CAN PROVIDE INSIGHT IN THE LEARNING POTENTIAL OF FIVE YEAR OLDS -- INTRODUCTION -- SHORT HISTORY OF PRIMARY EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS -- THE NEED TO REVEAL LEARNING POTENTIAL -- Evoking Learning Potential as Part of a Dynamic System -- METHOD -- Design -- Procedure -- Participants -- Materials -- Video recordings -- Coding system -- Mediacoder -- Analyses -- Statistical Procedure -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 14. PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' REPRESENTATIONS OF SCHOOL MATHEMATICS AND IMMIGRANT CHILDREN -- WHY STUDY TEACHERS' REPRESENTATIONS? -- Contextualizing the Study -- Ronnie's Story -- Representations, Transitions, and Identities -- Inclusion, Social Representations and Teacher Education -- APPROACHING STUDENT TEACHERS' SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS -- Study Design -- Analysis -- What the Student Teachers Say -- Difficulties in Learning Mathematics -- Changes in the Way Mathematics Is Taught -- Limitations in the Teaching of Mathematics.

The Use of Different Algorithms -- Student Teachers' Social Representations of Immigrant Schoolchildren as Mathematics Learners -- DISCUSSION: WAYS FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- 15. LEARNING, SOCIAL INTERACTION AND DIVERSITY - FUTURE CHALLENGES -- METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- MOVING THROUGH CULTURES BY ALLOWING DIALOGICAL SELVES -- MESSAGE TO TEACHERS -- REFERENCES.