Positioning Students as Actors and Authors: A Chronotopic Analysis of Collaborative Learning Activities

• DOI: 10.1207/s15327884mca1303_6
• Publication Date: 2006-12-07T21:36:19Z
• Authors: Raymond Brown; Peter Renshaw
• Keywords: Chronotope; Dynamics

Bakhtin's (1981) concept of chronotope provides a way viewing student participation in the classroom as dynamic process constituted through interaction past experience, ongoing involvement, and yet-to-be-accomplished goals. Although actual design use space may be important facilitating participatory pedagogy, chronotopic analysis directs attention to grounding shifting time-space contexts that are emergent within students' teacher's discursive practices. In our analyses events conversations, we focus on agency students actively shaping space-time classroom, considering how particular groundings for created they draw past, present, future temporal relations explain justify their ideas one another. Our provide insights into contested nature relationships hybridization contexts, ways enter during collaborative work classroom.