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Table 3 Conversation between Mr. Patrick and Jacob during the last day of the unit in lesson 12

From: Cultural competence or deficit-based view? A qualitative approach to understanding middle school students’ experience with culturally framed engineering

Speaker

Content

Observation/code

Jacob

Mr. Patrick, how should we describe why it’s important?

 

Mr. Patrick

Why do we want to build this for the fishermen?

Initiating

Jacob

So they can have a better way of life.

Responding

Once again, student went back to the default mode saying “better way of life”

Mr. Patrick

So the problem supports because the fishermen are poor and we want them to have a better (.) make more money so they can have a better way of life.

Evaluating

Jacob

Okay