Children's peer cultures in dialogue : participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools / Nicola Nasi, University of Bologna.

"Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor, task-...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nasi, Nicola (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2024]
Series:Dialogue studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Dialogue, intersubjectivity, and diversity in education
  • On intersubjectivity
  • Dialogue in diverse environments
  • Public schools and diversity
  • Some remarks on institutional dialogue
  • Chapter 2. A social perspective on children's development
  • Socialization through dialogue
  • On competence
  • Continuity and change in hybrid communities
  • Identities, ideologies, and socialization at school
  • Constructing difference and belonging in dialogue
  • Chapter 3. Children's peer languages and cultures
  • Children's agency and interpretive reproduction
  • Children's peer activities and cultures
  • Children's peer dialogue as a double opportunity space
  • Heteroglossia in the peer group
  • Acts of affiliation and disaffiliation: Social bonds and ostracism among peers
  • Chapter 4. (Mis)alignments to the school culture
  • Enacting and resisting subteaching practices
  • Peer socialization to institutional norms of language use
  • Peer socialization to institutional practices of literacy
  • Peer socialization to the social and moral norms of the institution
  • Socializing peers, negotiating local identities
  • Chapter 5. Classroom asymmetries: Authority and power in the peer group
  • Negotiating power asymmetries in the peer group
  • Macro-acting: Mobilizing authoritative sources
  • Achieving epistemic primacy
  • Peer hierarchies and children's social identity in the classroom
  • Chapter 6. Peer conflict: How children argue with each other
  • Accusations and rebuttals: Conflict in heterogeneous peer groups
  • Children's mediation of peer conflict; Including and excluding peers through conflict
  • On teachers' intervention
  • Chapter 7. Creativity in children's peer dialogues
  • Creativity in the peer group: Amusement and performance
  • Co-constructing identities and relationships through creative language use
  • Language creativity, learning, and development
  • Some tentative conclusions ... and a few implications for teachers' practice.