Browsing by Author "Forssell, Nora"

Objects. The aim in the thesis is to find out and illustrate what kind of methods does a dialogical teacher exercise in a teaching situation. The thesis considers dialogic teaching in general and focuses more closely on the dialogical methods that a teacher uses. The research question is: What kind of methods does a dialogical teacher use in a teaching situation? The thesis gathers the methods that a dialogical teacher uses in a form that is easy to interpret and where people who are interested in dialogic teaching can get an extensive idea of the subject. The thesis creates a grouping of the methods used by a dialogical teacher that can be used to observe dialogue in teachers’ actions. Methods. The thesis is a descriptive literatute review. The material used was earlier studies about dialogic teaching from which I chose the ones that described the methods of a dialogical teacher. The studies used as data were mostly written in English. Studies that only considered dialogic teaching but didn’t describe the teacher’s actions were left out of the material. Also textbooks were left out of the material because it is hard to find the original writer. I tried to find material in various databases. I mainly used Google Scholar and Helka Finna as my databases. I searched for material with different word combinations in Finnish and in English. Results and Conclusions. In defining a dialogical teacher, it wasn’t important to follow a certain grammar instead more important was the overall dialogic stance towards teaching. The methods that a dialogical teacher uses found from the material can be sorted into five groups: attitudes, thinking, feelings, principles and values. In addition to this the methods that be divided into verbal methods and non-verbal methods. This grouping can be used to observe teachers’ actions in a teaching situation. The results of the research show that defining a dialogical teacher focuses on the methods that a teacher uses and not on the teacher’s persona or his/her permanent qualities.