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In this chapter, we present interactional ethnography as a “logic of inquiry” (Green, Dixon & Zaharlick, 2003) for studying how individual students, and those with whom they interact in classrooms, jointly construct opportunities for learning to be literate, and for constructing identity within and across times, actors and events. Our goal is to complement Nuthall’s (2007) work on the hidden lives of learners by proposing a conceptual approach to uncovering how students and the teacher socially construct opportunities for learning—and what opportunities they construct—personally and collectively across times, interactions and events.
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Green, J., Castanheira, M.L. (2012). Exploring Classroom Life and Student Learning. In: Kaur, B. (eds) Understanding Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-864-3_3
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