The broad field of “computers in education” includes a diversity of approaches to using computers for learning. Each approach is based on an epistemology: a theory of how knowledge is gained. In this presentation, I will characterize the uses of technology and their corresponding epistemologies. I will single out intersubjective epistemologies as timely for research and practice, and call for d...

Using audioand videotapes of acute pediatric encounters, this study (a) identifies pediatricians’ practices of next speaker selection when soliciting the problem presentation, (b) identifies factors that bear on next speaker selection, and (c) examines the consequences of physicians’ selection practices for who ultimately presents the problem. Although doctors most frequently select children as...

This paper critically analyses the meaning and use of translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in context a bilingual deaf education classroom where there are asymmetrical sensorial experiences being hearing, different access to ‘codified’ (either speech or sign-language) resources. The opportunities constraints examined through analysis meaning-making resources among hearing interl...

The focus of this study is interaction during speech and language intervention in children with phonological impairment. Interactional patterns between children and therapists in two different settings are compared; on the one hand ‘tabletop’ phonological intervention and, on the other hand, computer-assisted phonological intervention. The interactions are compared in terms of interactional dom...