Bakhtinian dialogic framework of four interconnected themes — voices, expanding the dialogue, inter-animation, and relations

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The article operationalizes dialogue through four Bakhtin-inspired themes used both to train teachers and to analyze noticing utterances. A voice is "a perspective about an idea that is communicated to others"; a dialogic gap occurs "when two equally valid and distinct voices interact, driving the dialogue forward"; expansion happens by widening (new voices, alternative solutions) or deepening (critical inquiry of existing voices); inter-animation involves revoicing others, and relations concern mutuality, equal status, and authoritative versus dialogic interaction. These constructs map onto eleven coded dialogic attributes (Table 1) such as persuasive interaction, monologue, and one-leads-another-is-led.

Accounts

• Bakhtinian dialogic framework of four interconnected themes — voices, expanding the dialogue, inter-animation, and relations — as an analytical lens for collaborative dialogue: The article operationalizes dialogue through four Bakhtin-inspired themes used both to train teachers and to analyze noticing utterances. A voice is "a perspective about an idea that is communicated to others"; a dialogic gap occurs "when two equally valid and distinct voices interact, driving the dialogue forward"; expansion happens by widening (new voices, alternative solutions) or deepening (critical inquiry of existing voices); inter-animation involves revoicing others, and relations concern mutuality, equal status, and authoritative versus dialogic interaction. These constructs map onto eleven coded dialogic attributes (Table 1) such as persuasive interaction, monologue, and one-leads-another-is-led. (Benzi Slakmon (2024))

Claims

• The intervention significantly increased teachers' noticing of six dialogic attributes — persuasive interaction, one leads and another is led, agreement and collective attention, students have equal status, dialogic gap, and monologue — but not of dialogue-expansion attributes [+M]

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Key Sources

• Benzi Slakmon, Rotem Abdu. (2024). Learning to notice collaboration: examining the impact of professional development on mathematics teachers’ enhanced awareness in CSCL settings. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn 19:137–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-024-09423-6

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