La mariposita ¿La recuerda?: the affective and moral dimensions of professional vision in learning to play the violin

Abstract

ABSTRACT This is a microanalytic study of a metaphorical story, which is co-constructed by a violin teacher and her emergent bilingual student as part of building the child’s professional vision within the art form. The findings center on the multi-functionality of the metaphorical story in facilitating participants’ evolving affective and moral alignments to knowledge within the interaction. This analytic locus also illuminates the ways in which the teacher’s ethical perception of her pupil’s embodied forms of responsiveness and resistance cultivates rich forms of joint activity. This research advances our understanding of cognition and learning in situ within humanizing pedagogies.