ECE 9130:Critical Analysis of Instruction and Learning

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Ed.S. or Ed.D. program.
This course is an advanced study of instruction and learning through the lens of classroom discourse. Candidates will explore the talk that happens in their classrooms across the three dimensions of the social context, interactional context, and individual human agency. They will record and transcribe classroom instructional context, and individual human agency. They will record and transcribe classroom instructional conversations and analyze them based on such components as turn taking, contextualization cues, narrative resources, and framing resources. Finally, candidates will reflect critically on their analyses of classroom talk and use their reflections to enact change in their instruction.