Varenne & McDermott: Successful Failure -- Figure 8.1

FIGURE 8.1 (Varenne & McDermott 1998: 197)

Major Positionings
	II - GETTING A TURN TO READ A moment in a multi-voiced chorus of children saying "I could" with their hands raised. (frame number on image can be used to cross-reference it with the transcript: sec 21-23)
	I - READING All the children are down into their books; their shoulders are line up; several of them have read words in echo with the designated reader. (transcript: sec. 34)
	IV - WAITING FOR THE TEACHER The teacher is talking to an adult to the right of the camera; the children look in various different directions (in this instance of the positioning, Jimmy looks at the adult with the teacherl Rosa does not appear focused on anything; Anna and Fred look at something on Fred's book. transcript: sec 145) [click on image to see another, long, instance of such waiting]

Major Positionings

II - GETTING A TURN TO READ

A moment in a multi-voiced chorus of children saying "I could" with their hands raised.

(frame number on image can be used to cross-reference it with the transcript: sec 21-23)

I - READING

All the children are down into their books; their shoulders are line up; several of them have read words in echo with the designated reader. (transcript: sec. 34)

IV - WAITING FOR THE TEACHER

The teacher is talking to an adult to the right of the camera; the children look in various different directions (in this instance of the positioning, Jimmy looks at the adult with the teacherl Rosa does not appear focused on anything; Anna and Fred look at something on Fred's book. transcript: sec 145)

[click on image to see another, long, instance of such waiting]

These should be compared to the formalization summarized in Figure 2.