Abstract Attending to both the political and pedagogical dimensions of silence in schools, this article engages in a close analysis of the silences constructed within an interaction between one first-grade student and his teacher in order to build theory regarding how silence is constructed in the classroom. Drawing on theories of neoliberalism as well as humanizing pedagogy, it presents multiple readings of this interaction to illustrate how interpretation of silence is shaped by ideology. Further, it emphasizes the mediating role of mandated standardized curriculum in the production of silence in this interaction. Through this analysis, it argues that neoliberalism creates both ideological and material barriers to the practice of silence in contemporary classrooms, while also suggesting how silence might be strategically used by teachers as a humanizing pedagogical resource.

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作为政治和教学法的沉默：通过新自由主义和人性化的镜头阅读课堂沉默

摘要 本文着眼于学校沉默的政治和教学层面，对一年级学生与老师互动中构建的沉默进行了仔细分析，以建立关于课堂沉默是如何构建的理论。 . 借鉴新自由主义理论以及人性化的教学法，它提供了对这种互动的多种解读，以说明意识形态如何塑造沉默的解释。此外，它强调强制标准化课程在这种互动中产生沉默的中介作用。通过这种分析，它认为新自由主义为当代课堂中的沉默实践创造了意识形态和物质障碍，