Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 10 Number: 4 Page: 237–253
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Identifying Effective Educational Talk
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Eunice Fisher
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This paper identifies the features of effective educational talk Contextual differences between educational and social settings relating to the topic the aims of the partici pants the extent of shared understandings
the need for truth and the nature of participants roles are used as starting points for the examination of undergraduates seminar discourse video recorded during a study of small group classroom discus
sions Using an analytic approach which focuses on content and the work done by the talk the following are identified as important features of effective educational talk 1 an appreciation of the purpose
of the talk 2 a shared understanding of the relevant vocabulary 3 an appreciation of the need for testing hypotheses and using valid evidence 4 an acceptance of an educational agenda above a social agenda
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