Pillet-Shore2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Pillet-Shore2016 |
| Author(s) | Danielle Pillet-Shore |
| Title | Criticizing another’s child: How teachers evaluate students during parent-teacher conferences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Institutional interaction, conversation analysis, evaluating students, assessments, preference organization, delicates, laughter, parent-teacher conferences, criticism, praise |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 45 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 33–58 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404515000809 |
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Abstract
As the principal occasion for establishing cooperation between family and school, the parent-teacher conference is crucial to the social and educational lives of children. But there is a problem: reports of parent-teacher conflict pervade extant literature. Previous studies do not, however, explain how conflict emerges in real time or how conflict is often avoided during conferences. This article examines a diverse corpus of video-recorded naturally occurring conferences to elucidate a structural preference organization operative during parent-teacher interaction that enables participants to forestall conflict. Focusing on teachers’ conduct around student-praise and student-criticism, this investigation demonstrates that teachers do extra interactional work when articulating student-criticism. This research explicates two of teachers’ most regular actions constituting this extrawork: obfuscating responsibility for student-troubles by omitting explicit reference to the student, and routinizing student-troubles by invoking other comparable cases of that same trouble. Analysis illuminates teachers’ work to maintain solidarity with students, and thus parents.
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