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In this chapter, I engage with Graham Nuthall’s work from the perspective of a teacher educator. It was his commitment and approach to classroom research, with its focus on understanding the “realities of students’ classroom experiences” (Nuthall, 2005, p. 919), that first attracted me to his research. The research reported here is classroom based and draws on Nuthall’s methods for collecting in-depth data of children’s classroom interactions to explore the lived experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children at Years 5 and 6. Discourse analysis revealed the ways in which CLD children were positioned within the classroom discourses and their identity construction.
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Major, J. (2012). Culturally Diverse Children in the Classroom. In: Kaur, B. (eds) Understanding Teaching and Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-864-3_17
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