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Table 4 Pedagogic relations in a biology lecture

From: Pedagogic register analysis: mapping choices in teaching and learning

 

Role

Interact

Act

1

So let’s look at the basic structures of the kidney.

dK1

Invite

Perception

2

Like a lot of organs, the kidney has an outer and inner region.

K1

impart

Knowledge

[point at image]

 

Invite

Attention

3

And like a lot of organs, the outer region is called the cortex, and the inner region is called the medulla.

 

Impart

Knowledge

So it’s true for any number of organs.

   

4

You’ve got these little tongues – or papillae – of medulla, which are sitting in this cup of connected tissue.

 

Invite

Perception

[point at image]

 

Invite

Attention

5

You can’t see the whole cup, because the thing’s been cut in half.

 

Invite

Perception

6

But you can imagine it’s almost like a funnel around the papilla.

 

Invite

Conception

[point at image]

 

Invite

Attention

7

And these are called calices – each one’s called a calyx, which I think is Latin for cup, or something like that.

 

impart

Knowledge

8

Several of the cups – or calices – will combine to form this large structure here, which is the renal pelvis – which is essentially a funnel into this tube here.

   

[point at image]

 

Invite

Attention

9

So, the urine is produced in this part of the kidneys, drains through the calices, into the pelvis, and down through the ureter.

 

Impart

Knowledge

10

Okay?

K1f

Check

Reception