Multicultural classroom discourse dataset on teachers' and students' dialogic empathy

Area of Science:

• Educational Psychology
• Linguistics
• Cultural Studies

Background:

• Large-scale educational intervention focused on cultural literacy learning.
• Dataset comprises transcribed dialogic interactions from 111 lessons across five countries.
• Lessons implemented in pre-primary, primary, and secondary school classrooms.

Purpose of the Study:

• To provide a rich, multicultural, and multilingual dataset for further research.
• To facilitate analysis of dialogic interactions related to cultural literacy.
• To support studies in intercultural pragmatics and dialogue skills.

Main Methods:

• Data collected from the third and eighth sessions of a 10-session program.
• Dialogic interactions transcribed from classroom lessons.
• Data coded using a Dialogic Empathy coding scheme (Macagno et al., 2020).

Main Results:

• Dataset includes 111 transcribed lessons from England, Portugal, Germany, Spain, and Cyprus.
• Covers three age groups: pre-primary, primary, and secondary.
• Focuses on cultural literacy learning, defined by dialogic dispositions and values.

Conclusions:

• The dataset is valuable for researchers in linguistics and educational psychology.
• Offers opportunities for cross-sectional studies on dialogue and reasoning.
• Enables analysis of intercultural pragmatics and multicultural communication.