Mehan1998
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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 |
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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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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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