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Teaching Genres: A Bakhtinian Approach
Author(s) -
Rockwell Elsie
Publication year - 2000
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 - 10.1525/aeq.2000.31.3.260
Subject(s) - sociology , locality , variety (cybernetics) , conversation , teaching method , linguistics , anthropology , pedagogy , epistemology , literature , art , communication , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence
This article accentuates the cultural/historical nature of teaching. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of speech genres, it approaches classroom discourse as a composite genre that reflects the history of teaching in each locality. The analysis of a lesson observed in a rural school in Mexico shows how genres drawn from a variety of sources convey different sorts of knowledge as they are woven into ongoing classroom conversation.