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Hildebrand, Gaell M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Challenges ways in which a positivist view of science has led to hegemonic discourse on writing to learn science and highlights contradictions in this discourse. Argues for pedagogy that draws on critical, feminist, and hegemonic pedagogies and incorporates affective, creative, critical, cognitive, and diverse language practices set within…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Content Area Writing, Critical Theory, Educational Change
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Freeman, Marjorie; Murphy, Michael – Mathematics and Computer Education, 1992
Describes background, focus, expectations, results, and comments concerning an undergraduate capstone course in the history of applied mathematics. Content area writing as a learning activity is recommended to promote an understanding of the history of the developments in mathematics which led to present day techniques, vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Mathematics, Content Area Writing, Higher Education