Mehan1998

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Mehan1998
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mehan1998
Author(s) Hugh Mehan
Title The Study of Social Interaction in Educational Settings: Accomplishments and Unresolved Issues
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Tag(s) EMCA, education, inequality
Publisher
Year 1998
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Journal Human Development
Volume 41
Number 4
Pages 245–269
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DOI 10.1159/000022586
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School
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Howpublished
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Abstract

The study of face-to-face interaction in educational settings is placed in historical context. The major themes of interactional analysis – that social and cognitive structures are constructed in social interaction, human behavior is context-specific, cultural discontinuity helps explain educational inequality, and learning is a sociocultural process – are reviewed, and the contributions of these findings to theory, methodology and pedagogy are assessed. The paper concludes with a discussion of two unresolved issues: the integration of social structure and interaction in interactional analysis and the reconciliation of conflictual and consensual dimensions of learning.

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