Poster #26 - Conflicts in Context: Opportunities to Learn in a University Kinesiology Classroom

• In Event: 47.099 - MTCC Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 47.099-5 - Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This critical microethnographic study examines a Canadian, undergraduate, Kinesiology classroom and how the professor’s framing of science learning made space for a range of opportunities to learn (OTL). Then I explore how students’ navigation of scientific discussions within small groups shaped their access to particular OTL. Using videotaped observations of classroom lessons and student interviews, the analyses consider the students’ verbal and non-verbal acts of positioning, highlighting how their access to particular OTL are facilitated and/or constrained by these positions. My findings show how a common task led to differential contexts for learning. In particular, conflicts and student uptake of different positions in group work are examined for their ability to foster unique OTL.

Author

• Allison Ritchie, University of Toronto