Teachers faced challenges integrating students' everyday experiences with conceptual knowledge, and conversations sometimes remained at an experience-based level without reaching academic perspectives.¶

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q2 i? In a whole-class conversation about the concept of role, the conversation remained at an experience-based level without linking the student's everyday experiences to academic perspectives. → Kenneth Silseth 2026 q2 i? The teachers struggled to identify the relevance of the student's contribution because of different orientations to the focal concept. → Kenneth Silseth 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Kenneth Silseth 2026¶

Kenneth Silseth, Marthe Fundingsrud, Anniken Furberg. (2026). Infusing students' everyday experiences in classrooms: a case study of classroom conversations in life skills education. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-026-09820-4

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Interaction analysis of Sequence 3: after a student gave an advanced account of moderating his personality across contexts, Teacher B simplified his contribution as being good at acting, and the discussion did not reach academic conceptualisations.

"This point relates to how the conversation remained at an experience-based level without linking the student's everyday experiences to academic perspectives on the notion of role."

Kenneth Silseth 2026 (2)¶

Kenneth Silseth, Marthe Fundingsrud, Anniken Furberg. (2026). Infusing students' everyday experiences in classrooms: a case study of classroom conversations in life skills education. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-026-09820-4

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Analytical summary of Sequence 3: the teachers understood role from an acting perspective while the student understood it as dynamic and context-dependent, so the teachers' revoicing attempts did not match his understanding.

"Summing up, the analysis of Sequence 3 revealed how identifying the relevance of students' everyday experiences might be challenging owing to different orientations of conceptual knowledge."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Teachers can respond to sensitive and emotional student contributions in whole-class life skills conversations by acknowledging the contribution, integrating it and redirecting toward general aspects of the topic, thereby avoiding a therapeutic role. — related
• Teachers can guide students' conceptual understanding of life skills concepts by building on the everyday experiences students invoke in classroom conversations. — related
• Inviting students to share everyday experiences contributed to a safe, inclusive classroom climate in which students willingly shared personal experiences in life skills conversations. — related
• Explicitly unfolding higher-order contributions into lower-order concept elements produces deeper conceptual learning opportunities than jumping directly to procedure — related
• Teachers' instructional moves of attuning to, acknowledging, repeating and selectively picking up on student contributions appear to enable students to develop increasingly complex understandings of life skills concepts. — reports the opposite