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Neljapäeval, 12. novembril kl 17.00-18.00 (ruumis T-307) peab dr Tamás Péter Szabó loengut teemal „Co-constructing the global, the national and the local: schoolscapes and classroom interaction“.

Tamás Péter Szabó is a senior researcher (Marie Curie research fellow) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His current project investigates various forms of discourse, ideology and interaction in Hungarian and Finnish education. His research interests include the management of diversity in institutional settings, schoolscapes, and agency in interaction. For more information (projects, publications, blog…) see his personal website:  

Loengut tutvustav abstrakt:

The material culture of school buildings contributes to the emergence of interactions in many ways. Among others, (i) the spatial arrangement of the furniture enhances the emergence of certain settings of communication (e.g., teacher-fronted or group settings) while constrains others; (ii) signs placed onto or projected to the walls can be referred to during classroom interaction; (iii) the significance and the role of these signs can be discussed; (iv) posting or detaching signs can be negotiated; and (v) the co-production of signs (e.g. students’ group work on a poster) also can evoke interaction. 

In my recent studies (e.g. Szabó 2015), based on my fieldwork observations and the documented co-exploration of the site with school community members (‘tourist guide technique’), I analysed examples of the integration of national and local culture in Hungarian state schools, and I also discussed strategies of emphasising the local values and policies in private schools. In this lecture I extend the investigation of schoolscape to two directions: (i) I involve the video-documented production process of the signs and (ii) the notion of ‘global’ into the analysis. The analysis will be based on a group work discussion among students in an EFL lesson, which provides insights into the co-construction of language ideological and identity issues in the course of the preparation of a thematic poster.

Reference

Szabó, Tamás Péter 2015. The Management of Diversity in Schoolscapes: an analysis of Hungarian practices. Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies 9(1), pp. 23–51. 

Rohkem infot:

Anastassia Zabrodskaja, anastaza@tlu.ee, 55659113