Lots on Student Teacher Relationship

Cardiff Posters

Group 1

Lots on student – teacher relationship - nothing on student – student relationship - little on student – mathematics relationship

Agency – not changing set - staying in the same school ( established position)

Strong sense of storying himself as a student

- Raised issues relating to ‘top-set’ pedagogy. Possibility of Agency Group 3 Family influence

SISTER Maths teacher’s belief in him SET ABOVE DAD

TR9 teacher stunted growth

Where is Luigi?

LUIGI’S ‘CHOICES’

BIGGEST TREE IN HIS GROUP

His perception of himself as a person who likes challenge. Sense of self as trainee football coach, native Spanish speaker.

RHIZOME – GRASS NOT STICKING TO THE ‘SOCIO-CULTURAL’ TREE STORY – DISCOURSE INTERFERENCE Socio- cultural relationships

ability Boy

Science teachers Teaching + learning family Being seen Football Spanish mutuality Masculine environment Affinity

Competitive sister belonging

father

Maths Oedipus

What are the unconscious processes that construct him as agentic? Choices? – to stay in set 2 – to do Spanish - to do physics : . of maths, but maths: . if teacher

“teachers enjoy teaching me”

“spats”- rejection of teacher can’t be spoken as such

love/hate swap in feelings about maths because of teacher – gendered? science class - teacher’s role here? -I will guarantee you an A or A* if…

MOTHER RELATIONSHIPS used to keep does not want where does the him in set 2 change in these “really annoying” come from?

does he think mother already believes in him? challenge is enjoyable

Father endorses high challenge enables a relationship with difficulty aspirations? (but is different for all)

stuff family do + don’t expect is this now “I can surprise him” independent of every lunchtime!! FATHER teacher? commitment- experience of ownership

2 sides – maths/ physics opposed – not connected Spanish / football tensions?

not resented – central to identity will he home / school links keep both going?

sibling relationships

Denial of influence by media – word “influence” provokes a conscious response

Discourse binaries

compulsion weird (natural) attributing success to:

teacher (natural genius) hard work (a counter maths narrative) challenge ______? difference identification