Dialogical Argumentation and Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms

AvMijung Kim,Wolff-Michael Roth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Science educators have come to recognize children’s reasoning and problem solving skills as crucial ingredients of scientific literacy. As a consequence, there has been a concurrent, widespread emphasis on argumentation as a way of developing critical and creative minds. Argumentation has been of increasing interest in science education as a means of actively involving students in science and, thereby, as a means of promoting their learning, reasoning, and problem solving. Many approaches to teaching argumentation place primacy on teaching the structure of the argumentative genre prior to and at the beginning of participating in argumentation. Such an approach, however, is unlikely to succeed because to meaningfully learn the structure (grammar) of argumentation, one already needs to be competent in argumentation. This book offers a different approach to children’s argumentation and reasoning based on dialogical relations, as the origin of internal dialogue (inner speech) and higher psychological functions. In this approach, argumentation first exists as dialogical relation, for participants who are in a dialogical relation with others, and who employ argumentation for the purpose of the dialogical relation. With the multimodality of dialogue, this approach expands argumentation into another level of physicality of thinking, reasoning, and problem solving in classrooms. By using empirical data from elementary classrooms, this book explains how argumentation emerges and develops in and from classroom interactions by focusing on thinking and reasoning through/in relations with others and the learning environment.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-25
Mått:155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:383 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education
Antal sidor:140
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004392564

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Mijung Kim is an associate professor of science education at the University of Alberta. She has published several journal articles and books on inquiry-based teaching, science curriculum and research, including Issues and Challenges in Science Education Research (Springer, 2012) and East-Asian Primary Science Curricula (Springer, 2017).Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published over 60 books and nearly 500 peer-reviewed journal articles. He was awarded many outstanding research awards and received an honorary doctorate (University of Ioannina, Greece).

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PrefaceList of Figures and Tables1 Argumentation Research in Science EducationToulmin Argument PatternsDialogue and Presumptive ArgumentationScientific Reasoning through ArgumentationOverview2 Vygotsky’s Spinozist Perspectives on LanguageThe Real Life of LanguageFrom Meaning to SenseThe Sense-giving ContextureThe Lived World Indicated by the SignThe System of SignsSign-use as an Expressive ActSign-use as a Communicative ActThe Communicative Act as Soliciting a BehaviorThe In-order-to Motive and the Now, Here, and Thus of the Communicative Act3 Children’s Reasoning and Problem SolvingThe Complexity of Young Children’s ReasoningWhat is Evidence?Evidence in Nested Sense-giving Contexture4 Argumentation as Joint ActionThe Social Nature of the WordArgumentation and EmergenceLaying the Garden Path in WalkingIndividualizing Collective Claims and EvidenceResolution of Contradictions and Emergence of New TroubleThe Social Nature of Argumentation5 The Role of Physical Objects in Science LessonsThe Commonness and Difference of Physical ObjectsAbstraction: What is Happening in the Real Event?Physical Objects that Contribute to the Making of SenseLearning with Physical Objects6 Argumentation and InscriptionsA Lesson FragmentFrom Explaining an Observation to Warranting a ClaimInscriptions in the Establishment of a WarrantOpportunities Arising from Working on the Chalkboard7 Argumentation and the Thinking BodyPosition and DispositionThinking and SpeechUnity/Identity of Body and MindOn Overcoming the Psychophysical Problem8 Teaching Argumentation in Elementary ScienceAttending to the Physicality of ArgumentationPointing and FormulatingBeing a Member of a Problem-Solving CommunityIndex