Abstract
This paper elucidates the process of socialization in a class of three-year-old children in a kindergarten as a local practice performed by class members. Classical studies of socialization have examined the process of socialization only based on the simplified logic that “learning norms”. This paper reveals the process of “school socialization” as detailed everyday practices.
By analyzing the interaction between the members in a kindergarten class, this paper reveals four things, as follows. First, adjacency pair, a form of “repetition pair,” is used for accomplishing the task of transmitting propositional knowledge and maintaining classroom order. Second, DRE (direction/response/evaluation), a adjacency triple, is used for accomplishing the task of transmitting school norms such as “sitting looking toward the blackboard” and producing-maintaining classroom order to facilitate the later work of knowledge production. Third, the school norm of “sitting looking toward the blackboard” transmitted through the DRE method is constituted by a “blend” of propositional and know-how knowledge. Fourth, DRE is used in situations that involve all the kindergartners, and thus differs from QRE (question/response/evaluation), which is frequently used toward a single learner.
These procedures of “repetition pair” and “DRE” provide important insights for studies of socialization because they demonstrate one of the root aspects of socialization, “scholastic socialization” as “socialization toward socialization,” and simultaneously, these procedures provide suggestions for studies of classroom practices that are not revealed by capturing classroom interactions only as QRE and adjacency triple.
