This article explores tactile practices in pedagogical settings by focusing on one specific
pedagogical touch type, teacher-initiated hand-on-shoulder touch, which is examined …

Fewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the
on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening …

This article adds to research on bilingual language alternation by investigating how
language choice is managed at the crossroads of social norms and rules in the interaction of …

The paper explores children's peer co-construction and negotiation of classroom norms,
focusing on rule formulations as a resource to assume an authoritative position in the group …

The paper explores non-native children's peer socialization to norms of literacy and
appropriate language use in the classroom. Drawing on ethnographic research in a primary …

Building on an ethnomethodological multimodal conversation analytic approach, this paper
explores the normative character and interactional embodied organization of negative …

This article focuses on touch, talk and embodied resources as a means of directing
participants' attention to a focal point in a pedagogical task. The data are drawn from a …

This paper provides a micro-analytical investigation into the action formation and ascription
of interrogatives as reproaches and the interactional exigencies and functions that motivate …

This article explores embodied responses to teacher reproaches during classroom
interaction. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis as a method, the analysis focuses …

researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and
challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what have been traditionally considered …