Construction of knowledge in bilingual German-French history lessons: Interactive emergence of “common ground”

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Table of Contents v
3. The relevance of dialogue analysis in the study of multicultural schools 1
4. Forms of communication in multicultural classrooms: A way of exploring dialogue 13
5. The dynamics of identity in multicultural schools 25
6. Dialogues and multiculturalism: Power and intercultural competencies 37
7. Integration: The road to success in school? A study among minority youth in the Netherlands 49
8. What else are students learning? A critical dialogue analysis of a multi-cultural classroom 65
9. Metacommunication in classroom interaction 85
10. The practice of relation-building by ethnic minority children: Investigating into how Chinese children in Northern Ireland deal with ethnic difference 101
11. Towards an intercultural dialogue in and around the school in Mexico: Problems, reflections and new perspectives 119
12. No penalty, but a...? − About monolingual teachers’ dialogues in multilingual classrooms 133
13. Adaptation of Caucasian children to multicultural Russian schools: An example from the Yaroslavl region 139
14. Cooperation and conflict management in the playground: A study of Dutch and Andalusian play behaviour 153
15. Construction of knowledge in bilingual German-French history lessons: Interactive emergence of “common ground” 169
16. “Constructing the other”: Discursive processes in academic and social labelling 187
17. Theory and practice of intercultural and multicultural education in the Czech Republic 207
18. Political models and local practice: The production of ethnicity in the schools of the Parisian periphery 223
19. Dialogue and teaching in multicultural settings 235
20. Instructive dialogues: Participation in dyadic interactions in multicultural classrooms 249
21. Collaboration patterns in a multi-ethnic classroom in the Netherlands: Differences in the reconstruction of institutional norms and ethnicity 265
22. Disengagement and teacher-student interactions in two Dutch multi-ethnic schools 283
23. Complex patterns in classroom discourse 299
24. List of Contributors 325