Interpretive discussion: Engaging students in text-based conversations

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  • Stanton Wortham Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1847

Author Biography

Stanton Wortham, Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Wortham has written widely on classroom discourse and the linguistic anthropology of education. He has been a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow. He serves on the editorial boards of Theory & Psychology, American Educational Research Journal, Linguistics & Education, Mind, Culture & Activity, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse Processes, Pedagogies, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Discourse, Context and Media and American Anthropologist. In 1997, he was awarded the first annual Maine Campus Compact Faculty Service-Learning Award. In 2001, he received the American Educational Research Association Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research. In 2008 he was named a W.T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow, and in 2009, an American Educational Research Association Fellow.

References

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Haroutunian-Gordon, S. (1991). Turning the soul: Teaching through conversation in the high school. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Haroutunian-Gordon, S. (2003). Listening – in a democratic society. Presidential Address to the 59th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society. In K. Alston (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2003 (pp. 1-18). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Haroutunian-Gordon, S. (2007). Listening and questioning. Learning Inquiry, 1, 143-152.

Haroutunian-Gordon, S. (2009). Learning to teach through discussion: The art of turning the soul. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Published

2015-03-04

How to Cite

Wortham, S. (2015). Interpretive discussion: Engaging students in text-based conversations. Education Review, 22. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1847

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Vol. 22 (2015)

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Book reviews

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