Abstract
This study investigates how grade five students in a multilingual mathematics classroom where the language of instruction (Swedish) is the only shared language act to inhabit the learning space in solidarity as they encounter epistemological difference. The study contributes with empirical knowledge on students’ solidarity acts when they engage in explanatory conversations in whole class or small group discussions. Theoretically, the study contributes with coordination of Levinasian conceptions of solidarity and inferentialism to capture solidarity in epistemological dimensions of explanatory conversations among students. The study provides 4 different events that illuminate students’ solidarity acts in encounters with epistemological difference. The events include willingness to accept otherness, substituting oneself for the other, disruption and idiolect bridging, and endurance in giving reasons when being asked nonnormatively appropriate questions.
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