Course supports participants in developing critical awareness of how their coaching conversations with teachers impact peer and student relationships. Participants will learn to “do” discourse analysis by engaging in collaborative and recursive roleplaying with data from classroom and coaching interactions.
Athena Title
Discourse Analysis Educators
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 5732, LLED 7732, LLED 8732
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will identify socio-political and institutional policies and practices that shape, and are shaped by, interactions that take place in social and academic contexts.
Students will critique different theories of discourse analysis and their implications for classroom and research practices.
Students will analyze classroom and coaching interactions or discourse (e.g., turns-at-talk; contextualization cues) in terms of their power to support or impede effective communication.
Students will reflect on ways to design effective discursive strategies in coaching contexts.
Topical Outline
1. Tenets of Classroom and Coaching Discourse
2. Getting to the Talk: Recording and Viewing in Three Dimensions of Discourse
3. Relations in Classroom and Coaching Discourse: Power and Knowledge as Collaborative Achievements
