The Embodied Work of Teaching

Edited by Prof. Joan Kelly Hall, Stephen Daniel Looney

Publication date:

16 September 2019

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788925495

The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the complex management of various courses of action and larger instructional projects. Together, the chapters document the embodied accomplishment of teaching by identifying specific resources that teachers use to manage instructional projects; demonstrate that teaching entails both alignment and affiliation work; and show the significance of using high-quality audiovisual data to document the sophisticated work of teaching. By providing analytic insight into the highly-specialized work of teaching, the studies make a significant contribution to a practice-based understanding of how the life of the classroom, as lived by its members, is accomplished.

Drawing on a range of empirical settings, the studies in this volume show that teaching is skillful doing-in-the-world and illuminate how teachers' full embodied repertoires are crucial in the accomplishment of the locally contextualized, yet recognizable acts, that instantiate their métier. The volume is of immense value to practitioners, researchers and educators alike.