Toft2024
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Toft2024 |
| Author(s) | Thomas L. W. Toft, Brian L. Due |
| Title | Material Constraints for Assistant-Supported Learning: The Case of a Visually Impaired Student in Classroom Interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Visually impaired student, Learning support assistant, Desk engagement, Participation framework |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 3 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.7146/si.v7i3.150850 |
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Abstract
This paper explores classroom desk interaction where the student has a visual impairment (VIS), and the interaction involves a third supportive party, the student’s learning support assistant. Based on video recordings and multimodal conversation analysis, the paper examines how a VIS, his assistant, and the teacher within a contingent socio-material environment work toward solving an assignment. The analysis is organized following the sequential unfolding of the assignment-solving situation, going from a) determining the need for teacher assistance, b) the recruitment of the teacher’s assistance with the assignment, c) how the participation framework for the joint activity of reviewing the assignment is established with the assistant positioning herself as a fellow “learner”, and d) how the issue is identified and solved. The analysis shows the situated properties of the socio-material environment in which the participants and the local material contingencies are assembled and thus become consequential for the collaborative and observable production of the situation.
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