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Sharing Time and the Poetic Patterning of C aribbean Independence: The Narrative Architecture of Voice
Author(s) -
Van der Aa Jef
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12014
Subject(s) - narrative , storytelling , independence (probability theory) , architecture , poetry , sociology , focus (optics) , pedagogy , psychology , literature , visual arts , art , statistics , physics , mathematics , optics
This article discusses the narrative architecture and interactional uptake of a school child's story about independence in B arbados during sharing time. It is found that an institutional focus on standard resources impacts both teachers' and children's sociolinguistic behavior. Ethnopoetic analysis brings out the child's patterned use of narrative resources and shows how voice is established collaboratively in the classroom here, with a both empowering and policing role for the teacher in steering the storytelling.