TY - JOUR
T1 - Number words in ‘her’ language, dialogism and identity-work
T2 - the case of little Mariah
AU - Chronaki, Anna
AU - Mountzouri, Georgia
AU - Zaharaki, Maria
AU - Planas, Núria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/8/22
Y1 - 2016/8/22
N2 - Based on an ethnographic study, we explore the potential of experimenting with multiple languages for number words as part of young children’s mathematical activity. Data from a preschool classroom activity on ‘number words in “other” languages’ exemplify a complex process of discursive identity-work and dialogism amongst children, parents, teacher, and researchers. The focus is on the case of little Mariah, a Pakistani immigrant girl in Greece, who experiences participation by sharing number knowledge in her mother tongue Urdu, and highlights how gendered, racial, or language-related discourses weave her learner identity in a multilingual preschool classroom.
AB - Based on an ethnographic study, we explore the potential of experimenting with multiple languages for number words as part of young children’s mathematical activity. Data from a preschool classroom activity on ‘number words in “other” languages’ exemplify a complex process of discursive identity-work and dialogism amongst children, parents, teacher, and researchers. The focus is on the case of little Mariah, a Pakistani immigrant girl in Greece, who experiences participation by sharing number knowledge in her mother tongue Urdu, and highlights how gendered, racial, or language-related discourses weave her learner identity in a multilingual preschool classroom.
KW - dialogism
KW - discursive identity-work
KW - early number
KW - Mathematics education
KW - multilingual classroom
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983526968&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14675986.2015.1078527
DO - 10.1080/14675986.2015.1078527
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983526968
SN - 1467-5986
VL - 27
SP - 352
EP - 362
JO - Intercultural Education
JF - Intercultural Education
IS - 4
ER -