Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities

Author : Randy K. Yerrick,Wolff-Michael Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135627997

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Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities by Randy K. Yerrick,Wolff-Michael Roth Pdf

Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. The contributors--some of the top educational researchers, linguists, and science educators in the world--represent a variety of perspectives pertaining to teaching, assessment, research, learning, and reform. As a whole the book explores the variety, complexity, and interconnectivity of issues associated with changing classroom learning communities and transforming science classroom discourse to be more representative of the discourse of scientific communities. The intent is to expand debate among educators regarding what constitutes exemplary scientific speaking, thinking, and acting. This book is unparalleled in discussing current reform issues from sociolinguistic and sociocultural perspectives. The need for a revised perspective on enduring science teaching and learning issues is established and a theoretical framework and methodology for interpreting the critique of classroom and science discourses is presented. To model and scaffold this ongoing debate, each chapter is followed by a "metalogue" in which the chapter authors and volume editors critique the issues traversed in the chapter by opening up the neatly argued issues. These "metalogues" challenge, extend, and deepen the arguments made. Central questions addressed include: *Why is a sociolinguistic interpretation essential in examining science education reform? *What are key similarities and differences between classroom and scientific communities? *How can the utility of common knowledge and existing classroom discourse be balanced toward alternative outcomes? *What curricular issues are associated with transforming classroom talk? *What other perspectives can assist in creating multiple access to science through redefining classroom discourse? Whether this volume improves readers' science teaching, assists their research, or helps them to better prepare tomorrow's science teachers, the goal is to engage them in considering the challenges faced by educators as they navigate the seas of reform and strive to improve science education for all.

Author : Tomáš Janík,Tina Seidel
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830972082

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The Power of Video Studies in Investigating Teaching and Learning in the Classroom by Tomáš Janík,Tina Seidel Pdf

The history of methods of observation illustrates a gradual development from lay observation to systematic scientific observation. Over the past centuries, observing scientists have learned to take advantage of various research tools. Just as natural scientists came to appreciate the aid of the microscope to observe very small objects and telescopes to observe very distant objects, we have come to see video technology as a tool for social scientists to observe phenomena that are too complex to be studied by the naked eye. The investigative potential of such video studies lies in the fact that complex phenomena and events captured on video are available for analysis that can focus ex-post facto on various aspects of the material under investigation. Video study is a complex methodological approach, which enables the employing of various strategies, methods or techniques for generating, collecting and analysing video data, i.e. audiovisual data grounded in rich situational contexts. The book is structured in three sections which comprise chapters that focus on a specific power of video technology in classroom research. The chapters in section I focus on the power of video to describe the dynamics of teaching and learning in the classroom. They present various video studies conducted in the past fifteen years that aimed to describe the practices of teaching. The chapters in section II focus on the use of video in investigating the effects of teaching on student learning. They present approaches that build on video studies in order to link data about classroom processes with data about learning outcomes. The chapters in section III discuss possibilities offered by the use of video in professional development of teachers. Contributors: Peter (Reggie) Bowman, Geraldine Blomberg, Hilda Borko, David Clarke, Inger Marie Dalehefte, Erin Marie Furtak, Constanze Herweg, Dana Hübelová, Jennifer Jacobs, Tomáš Janík, Marcela Janíková, Kirsti Klette, Eckhard Klieme, Petr Knecht, Mareike Kobarg, Karen Koellner, Milan Kubiatko, Peter Labudde, Cameron Mitchell, Petr Najvar, Veronika Najvarová, Christine Pauli, Manfred Prenzel, Kurt Reusser, Rolf Rimmele, Kathleen Roth, Katharina Schwindt, Simona Šebestová, Tina Seidel, Richard J. Shavelson, Kathleen Stürmer, Elke Sumfleth, Maik Walpuski

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087900977

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Redesigning Pedagogy by Anonim Pdf

This book brings together selected papers from a conference focusing on Redesigning Pedagogy, organized by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore. The papers are organised around seven key themes: Literacy Education, Relations of Power, Reflection, Meaning Making, Evaluation, and Mathematics and Science

Author : Keri-Anne Croce,Jonah Firestone
Publisher : IAP
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641139830

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Developing Science Literacy in the 21st Century by Keri-Anne Croce,Jonah Firestone Pdf

The development of science literacy has the potential to have an enormous impact on real world outcomes. Specifically, developing science literacy may persuade individuals to act. We hope that this book will influence scientists, science journalists, sociologists, anthropologists, communication specialists, political leaders, media outlets, educational institutions, and individual science content consumers. The chapters in this book describe a definition of science literacy that draws on the emotional, cognitive, and social. The authors strive to help prepare individuals to read, write, and speak science in a continuously evolving information landscape. In order to meet these objectives, the chapters examine both qualitative and quantitative research. It is within these frameworks that we can begin to address science literacy in the 21st century.

Author : Kevin D. Finson,Jon Pedersen
Publisher : IAP
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681230498

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Application of Visual Data in K-16 Science Classrooms by Kevin D. Finson,Jon Pedersen Pdf

This book examines visual data use with students (PK-16) as well as in pre-service in- service science teacher preparation. Each chapter includes discussion about the current state of the art with respect to science classroom application and utilization of the particular visual data targeted by the author(s), discussion and explanation about the targeted visual data as applied by the author in his/her classroom, use of visual data as a diagnostic tool, its use as an assessment tool, and discussion of implications for science teaching and/or science teacher preparation. Although the body of research and practice in this field is growing, there remains a gap in the literature about clearly explicating the use of visual data in the science classroom. A growing body of literature discusses what visual data are (although this topic is still viewed as being at the beginning of its development in educators’ thinking), and there are some scattered examples of studies exploring the use of visual data in science classrooms, although those studies have not necessarily clearly identified their foci as visual data, per se. As interest and attention has become more focused on visual data, a logical progression of questioning has been how visual data are actually applied in the science classroom, whether it be early elementary, college, or somewhere in between. Visual data applications of interest to the science education community include how it is identified, how it can be used with students and how students can generate it themselves, how it can be employed as a diagnostic tool in concept development, and how it can be utilized as an assessment tool. This book explores that, as well as a variety of pragmatic ways to help science educators more effectively utilize visual data and representations in their instruction.

Author : Kok-Sing Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000209402

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Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching and Learning by Kok-Sing Tang Pdf

This engaging and practical volume looks at discourse strategies and how they can be used to facilitate and enhance science teaching and learning within the classroom context, offering a synthesis of research on classroom discourse in science education as well as practical discourse strategies that can be applied to the classroom. Focusing on the connection between research and practice, this comprehensive guide unpacks and illustrates key concepts on the role of discourse in students’ thinking and learning based on empirical analysis of real conversations in a number of science classrooms. Using real-life classroom examples to extend the scope of research into science classroom discourse begun during the 1990s, Kok-Sing Tang offers original discourse strategies as explicit methods of using discourse to engage in meaning-making and work towards a specific instructional goal. This volume covers new and informative topics including how to use discourse to: Establish classroom activity and interaction Build and assess scientific content knowledge Organize and evaluate scientific narrative Enact scientific practices Coordinate the use of multimodal representations Building on more than ten years of research on classroom discourse, Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching and Learning is an ideal text for science teacher educators, pre-service science teachers, scholars, and researchers.

Author : Barry Fraser,Kenneth Tobin,Campbell J. McRobbie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402090400

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Second International Handbook of Science Education by Barry Fraser,Kenneth Tobin,Campbell J. McRobbie Pdf

The International Handbook of Science Education is a two volume edition pertaining to the most significant issues in science education. It is a follow-up to the first Handbook, published in 1998, which is seen as the most authoritative resource ever produced in science education. The chapters in this edition are reviews of research in science education and retain the strong international flavor of the project. It covers the diverse theories and methods that have been a foundation for science education and continue to characterize this field. Each section contains a lead chapter that provides an overview and synthesis of the field and related chapters that provide a narrower focus on research and current thinking on the key issues in that field. Leading researchers from around the world have participated as authors and consultants to produce a resource that is comprehensive, detailed and up to date. The chapters provide the most recent and advanced thinking in science education making the Handbook again the most authoritative resource in science education.

Author : Courtney B. Cazden
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015038918226

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Classroom Discourse by Courtney B. Cazden Pdf

Readers will emerge from the book with a better understanding of the significance of quality teacher-student talk and some of the most important research and researchers.

Author : Stephen May,Stanton Wortham,Deoksoon Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319022423

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Encyclopedia of Language and Education by Stephen May,Stanton Wortham,Deoksoon Kim Pdf

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization. In the selection of topics and contributors, the Encyclopedia reflects the depth of disciplinary knowledge, breadth of interdisciplinary perspective, and diversity of socio-geographic experience in the language and education field. Throughout, there is an inclusion of contributions from non-English speaking and non-western parts of the world, providing truly global coverage. Furthermore, the authors have sought to integrate these voices fully into the whole, rather than as special cases or international perspectives in separate sections. The Encyclopedia is a necessary reference set for every university and college library in the world that serves a faculty or school of education, as well as being highly relevant to the fields of applied and socio-linguistics. The publication of this work charts the further deepening and broadening of the field of language and education since the publication of the first edition of the Encyclopedia in 1997 and the second edition in 2008.

Author : Valarie L. Akerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Interdisciplinary approach in education
ISBN : UOM:39076002778111

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Interdisciplinary Language Arts and Science Instruction in Elementary Classrooms by Valarie L. Akerson Pdf

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Author : Diana Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 0325000255

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Spelling by Diana Rees Pdf

Author : Dennis W. Smithenry,Joan Gallager-Bolos
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781933531342

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Whole-class Inquiry by Dennis W. Smithenry,Joan Gallager-Bolos Pdf

In response to requests from science education professionals, this is the perfect vehicle for implementing and assessing this concept of whole-class inquiry in your classroom. This is a must-have package for preservice and inservice middle and high school science teachers.

Author : Judith Green,Allan Luke
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0935302336

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Rethinking Learning: What Counts as Learning and What Learning Counts by Judith Green,Allan Luke Pdf

The rapid transformations of social, economic, and cultural worlds of learners in school and nonschool settings that we are facing today are reminiscent of the transformations that accompanied the industrial revolution at the turn of the 20th century. Like those at the turn of the 20th century, education researchers and their constituencies (e.g., students, teachers, community members, and policy makers) are faced with a series of questions: How are we to respond to the educational challenges of this new millennium? How do we engage with new forms of learning, the influence of new media on children's lives, changing community dynamics, and many long-standing and tenacious educational and social problems? And how can research and theory constructively and critically engage with the demands and imperatives of government educational and social policies? In this book, the editors bring together an intergenerational group of researchers who represent both new and long-standing perspectives and debates on the shapes, definitions, and processes of learning in the context of global cultural and economic change.

Author : Finley, Stacie Lynn,Correll, Pamela,Pearman, Cathy,Huffman, Stephanie
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668482988

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Cultivating Critical Discourse in the Classroom by Finley, Stacie Lynn,Correll, Pamela,Pearman, Cathy,Huffman, Stephanie Pdf

The use of academic discourse in today’s educational environment has the potential to improve education for students from all backgrounds. To achieve this, further study on the best practices, challenges, and future opportunities is required. Cultivating Critical Discourse in the Classroom shares the benefits of empowering and engaging students at all levels of education through the use of academic discourse. The book also provides insights for educators to become more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped, to create spaces through discourse where cultural competence is cultivated. Covering key topics such as identity, linguistics, student autonomy, and language, this premier reference source is ideal for administrators, policymakers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Author : Jeffrey W. Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135437206

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Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists by Jeffrey W. Bloom Pdf

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists helps teachers - both pre-service and in-service - to develop exciting science programs in their classrooms. This book provides the groundwork for designing and implementing a science program that takes into account the latest research in teaching and learning. It provides an approach that will capture children's imaginations, stimulate their curiosity and create a strong foundation for their continued interest in, and appreciation of, science and the world in which they live. The book is designed to be user-friendly, and offers an approach to teaching science that is exciting for teachers as well. This thoroughly revised, second edition focuses on making inquiry more explicit both in terms of the process of inquiry and teaching in ways that capitalize on children's curiosity and questions. New material has also been added on U.S. and Canadian science standards, as well as professional standards for teachers.