EjSBS - The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher

Transformations In Teachers’ Discourse About Their Students During A School-Led Pedagogic Intervention

Table 2: Examples of positive and negative engagement discourses on the data

Positive view of student engagement Negative view of student engagement
ULLA: And then we started the creation of these glossaries from deciding a topic, and it was quite a long process, to select a topic. Maybe not everybody but some of the students, they found a topic immediately, but the others changed their topic many times – and then finally a topic was found for everyone, a topic they found that really was interesting for them. And the process then started pretty well in that class. (Category 1: Student choice as a possible way of engaging students) TUULA: The topics [they chose] we completely random. So next time when we start doing something like this I definitely want to limit it to the topic given in the textbook or somehow clearly. Because it otherwise goes all over the place with this lot.Though they really enjoyed doing it, that was really peculiar. They even ran after me in the corridor asking when we’ll do it again. (Category 1: Student choice as an undesirable way of engaging students)
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