The article focuses on the use of touch, in concert with body and talk, as a resource for the organisation of teacher instruction in the context of individualised learning in ‘open classrooms’ in German primary schools. Drawing on video observations of naturally occurring interactions between teachers and students in one such school, we analyse what is specific to teachers' instructional practices in open classrooms, a setting where each student is typically occupied with his or her individual task. The analysis reveals two aspects of using touch that play an important role in the instructional practices of teachers as they control, guide, and support students working individually on their learning tasks: the use of touch as a resource for establishing and closing a local interaction space and the use of touch as an instructional resource. The embodied characteristics of this kind of individualised instruction presuppose and commit the participants to rather close bodily contact and ‘nested formations’ that are different from the teacher-fronted activities of the cohort teaching format.

本文重点讨论了触摸与身体和言语的结合，作为德国小学“开放课堂”个性化学习背景下教师教学组织的资源。利用对此类学校中教师和学生之间自然发生的互动的视频观察，我们分析了教师在开放教室中的教学实践的具体内容，在开放教室中，每个学生通常都忙于自己的个人任务。分析揭示了使用触摸在教师的教学实践中发挥重要作用的两个方面，因为他们控制、指导和支持学生单独完成学习任务：使用触摸作为建立和关闭本地交互空间的资源以及使用触摸作为教学资源。