Analysing Discourses in Teacher Observation Feedback Conferences by Fiona Copland & Helen Donaghue instant download

Analysing Discourses in Teacher Observation Feedback Conferences by Fiona Copland & Helen Donaghue instant download

This volume focuses on the post-observation feedback conference, a common feature of teacher education programs, and highlights the importance of such talk in the development and evaluation of teachers and other professionals. The book adopts a linguistic ethnographic approach, which provides a framework for examining the contextual nature of the talk and how it is embedded within wider social contexts and structures, such as evaluation regimes. Drawing on data from different settings, including pre-service teacher education and in-service teacher appraisal programs, Copland and Donaghue examine the feedback conference from a range of perspectives – face, identity, power, agency, dialogism and genre – and show how a nuanced understanding of discussions can support teacher trainers, supervisors and observers (as well as other professionals engaged in feedback) to engage in appropriate and useful feedback. A concluding chapter brings together brief vignettes from researchers active in the field to point to future directions for further study. This book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse analysis, language education, linguistic ethnography and professional communication, as well as pre- and in-service teachers.