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Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom Patterns of Language, Culture, and Thought (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought, V)
Chet A. Bowers
David J. Flinders
Paperback. Teachers College Press 1990-01.
ISBN 9780807729977
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This book provides a conceptual basis for recognizing the classroom as an
ecology of linguistic and cultural patterns that should be taken into account
as part of the teacher's professional decision making. It argues that the
orchestration of classroom behaviour cannot be separated from the mental
ecology of metaphor and thought patterns that reflect the student's primary
culture. Chapters discuss the metaphorical nature of language and thought,
primary socilization, nonverbal communication, framing and social control, the
classroom as an ecology of power, culturally responsive supervision, and
educating teachers for the 21st century - all from a cultural and linguistic
point of view. The authors challenge the Cartesian tradition of viewing the student as a
culture free individual, and the classroom as a problem in management. They
draw on Gregory Bateson's ideas to help illuminate student behaviour as a form
of communciation about social relationships - a form of communication that
relies heavily on culturally embedded patterns, and to reveal the classroom as
a mental ecology where thought processes of others are encoded in the
metaphorical language used to introduce new concepts. The book emphasizes that
responsive teaching involves being sensitive to how the ecology of patterns
(behaviour and thought) reflects cultural differences and may be a source of
miscommuncation and alienation. Provides a conceptual basis for recognizing the classroom as an ecology of
linguistic and cultural patterns that should be taken into account as part of
the teacher's professional decision making. The book emphasizes that responsive
teaching involves being sensitive to these patterns.
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