Classroom communities' adaptations of the practice of scientific argumentation

Science Education - Tập 95 Số 2 - Trang 191-216 - 2011
Leema K. Berland1, Brian J. Reiser2
1Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
2Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

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AbstractScientific argumentation is increasingly seen as a key inquiry practice for students in science classrooms. This is a complex practice that entails three overlapping, instructional goals: Participants articulate their understandings and work to persuade others of those understandings in order to make sense of the phenomenon under study (L. K. Berland & B. J. Reiser, 2009). This study examines the argumentative discussions that emerged in two middle school science classrooms to explore variation in how the goals of sensemaking and persuasion were taken up. Our analyses reveals that each classroom engaged with these two goals but that they did so quite differently. These differences suggest that the students in each class had overlapping but different interpretations of argumentation. In addition, comparing across the class' arguments suggests these two goals of scientific argumentation may be in tension with one another. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 95: 191–216, 2011

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