Today teachers face an increased challenge in listening to classroom discourses and students’ areas ofinterest to let these coincides with the overall teaching purpose by feedback. Present study explorehow classroom communication can be modeled to allow this. The socio-scientific-issues raised wereat the same time aimed at creating relevance in the students’ social life as giving a respond to thecurriculum. The data consisted of recordings from science lessons in grade 7 and 8 in Sweden. To makevisible the tension that occurred between different discourses and displacement of power in theconversations, practical epistemological analysis has been made. This resulted in a categorization offive different ways the teacher is taking care of and reconnects the students’ impulses in relation tothe overall purpose. Consequently, this study is offering opportunities for teachers to, in a consciouslymanner, reflect on different strategies for discourse feedback in teaching.
Engelsk titel: Student impulses and teacher feedback. The relevance of teacher feedback for the classroom discourse and students’ meaning making in teaching on socio-scientific issues