Dialogic networks in classroom talk can dissolve into non-dialogic ones when task instructions and artifacts regain power over students¶
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q2 i? After about six minutes of collaborative argumentation, a student's call to start working shifted the group from dialogic argumentation to a less dialogic network of reading and classifying cards, ending their collaborative argumentation. → Baruch B. Schwarz 2025
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Baruch B. Schwarz 2025¶
Baruch B. Schwarz, Udi Tsemach, Mirit Israeli, Erez Nir. (2025). Actor-network theory as a new direction in research on educational dialogues. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-024-09669-5
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ANT analysis of turns 147–210 of the same small-group discussion: at turn 157 a student called peers to start working, and by turn 184 the argumentative dialogue ended as students reorganized to read and classify text cards on the board.
"There is a shift of networks as the dialogic network is replaced by a less dialogic one. In this shift, students' agency abruptly changes from strong in collaborative argumentation as students elaborate arguments and challenge each other, to weak agency when the making of an artifact dictated by non-human actors makes students' opinions and judgments irrelevant."
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Related Claims¶
- SEDA identifies co-construction and dialogic shifts but does not explain their mechanisms, whereas ANT explains shifts via changing power relations among actors — a broader claim this one bears on
- Non-human actants such as a Bristol board and task instructions can subordinate students and render classroom talk non-dialogic — related
- A single student's open question can trigger dissolution of a non-dialogic network and autonomous dialogic argumentation — related
- Self-constructed collaborative concept maps trigger more deep exploratory talk and less non-dialogic talk than completing or sorting maps, which yield mostly superficial exploratory talk — related
- Learners who construct good single arguments individually are not always able to apply that competence in comparable collaborative tasks — related
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Dialogic networks in classroom talk can dissolve into non-dialogic ones when task instructions and artifacts regain power over students |
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Dialogic networks in classroom talk can dissolve into non-dialogic ones when task instructions and artifacts regain power over students |
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