El proceso de lectura conjunta de cuentos infantiles: estudio comparado en España y México
Before the shortage of investigations around the discursive mechanisms that promote the knowledge shared, it is done necessary to continue the investigation around the educational strategies that promote the construction joint of the knowledge among the students. Two teachers, under a same task of discussion, they assume different goals that are going to influence in the elaboration of diverse strategies of construction of the knowledge. This article themselves center in the process of joint elaboration of the information. For it: (1) We devise a categories of analysis that permit to deepen in the joint construction of the knowledge from the reading of stories; (2) We offer the description of diverse didactic sequences in function of this system of observation, and (3) We analyze and we compare the evolution of the strategies of interaction, unfolded in the two groups observed, by the teachers and on the part of the students. The sample is formed by two classes of two public schools of Burgos (Spain), and Tampico (Mexico). In each class 6 groups of 3 children are observed. The decision on what children they form part of each group has delegated itself in the teachers. The joint analysis offers a very useful difference between two strategies of learning, that are keys in the narrations reading objectives: recovery and comprehension. The knowledge limited of the world and of the human actions compromises directly the comprehension, and the shortage of communicative and narrative abilities complicates the recovery.
La zona de construcción del conocimiento
Titulo original de la obra: The construction zone: Working for cognitive change in school. Traducido por Pablo Manzano
Structure and function of baby talk in a day-care centre
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine how caretakers speak to young children in a day-care centre and particularly to investigate how they adjust their language, according to children's age and to size of groups. Five Italian teachers were observed, each one during six different sessions. Children's ages were 0;10–1;2 and 2;6–3;0. The number of children varied from a rather large group (seven children) to a small group (three children) to a single child. Language was taperecorded during free-play sessions of ten minutes. Context was noted by two observers. Transcripts were analysed according to structural features (syntactical complexity, redundancy, type-token ratio, speed) and functional features (proportion of utterances with different purpose: control and organization of child behaviour, empathy, conversation and teaching). Results show some significant differences in structure and function according to children's age and group size.