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- Title
Classroom "Floors": Material Organizations as a Course of Affairs.
- Authors
Macbeth, Douglas
- Abstract
The article presents information on classroom speaking. Plain speaking is an evidence for an impressive array of professional topics: the order of rules, roles, power, prerogative, accountability, classroom culture, and institutional patterns of authority. By treating the transcript as a documentary shard or expression of formal structures, i.e., by understanding that these kinds of analytically constituted structures hold the interests and promise of normal social science. The classroom teacher is professionally responsible not only for proceeding with her/his work in a public environment, but for producing instruction, purposes, authority, etc., as public, observable, analyzable ensembles of interactional material detail. In and as this detail, the business of the classroom is produced and found as the matters at hand, subject to revision, moment to moment. Contingency, collaboration and analytic competence are the fabric to all that is familiar and observed of classroom order. The notion of the floor as a material object within an audio-visible field is the first and last item in our account. The analysis provides for two of its most durable features: that it is available to even a casual observer, easily recognizable, endlessly familiar.
- Subjects
CLASSROOM environment; FLOORS; CLASSROOM management; TEACHING; CLASSROOMS; TEACHERS
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1992, Vol 15, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989491