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Matthew M. Grondin; Michael I. Swart; Claire Huggett; Kate Fu; Mitchell J. Nathan – Grantee Submission, 2024
This full paper considers how collaborative discourse can reveal ways upper-class engineering students mechanically reason about engineering concepts. Argumentation and negotiation during collaborative, multimodal discourse using speech and gestures helps establish common ground between learners and fosters reflection on their conceptual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Discourse Analysis, Speech Communication
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Jayathilake, Chitra – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Characterized by specific and rigid boundaries of institutional practices and expectations in the academy, student writing is a synergistic literacy practice where students are required to construct generically diverse texts by yoking concepts with appropriate linguistic resources. This empirical study involving 196 first-year ESL students at a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning
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Pabuccu, A.; Erduran, S. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
This study investigated secondary school students' engagement in epistemic and narrative practices of chemistry in the context of a chemistry story on gas behavior. Argumentation is an example of an epistemic practice in science and stories are one kind of narrative (Ricoeur, 1981). By using a chemistry story, the authors hoped to engage students…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Students, Epistemology, Story Telling
Brown, Raymond; Redmond, Trevor – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
This paper explores the construction of classroom contexts facilitative of student engagement in Mathematics. Employing a form of discourse analysis framed within a participation approach to learning, the paper provides insights into the construction of such contexts. The affordances and constraints of constructing such a context are discussed in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Environment, Context Effect
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Hand, Michael – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
In "Doing God in education", Trevor Cooling aims to defeat what might be called the "marginalising" view of the place of religion in education. I am sympathetic to this aim; but I think Cooling conflates two different arguments, predicated on two different concepts marked by the term "world-view", and that only one of the arguments is plausible.…
Descriptors: Religion, World Views, State Church Separation, Global Education
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Yeh, Kuan-Hue; She, Hsiao-Ching – Computers & Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine the difference in effectiveness between two on-line scientific learning programs--one with an argumentation component and one without an argumentation component--on students' scientific argumentation ability and conceptual change. A quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Two classes of 8th grade…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Persuasive Discourse, Chemistry
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Clark, Douglas B.; Sampson, Victor – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
The national science standards, along with prominent researchers, call for increased focus on scientific argumentation in the classroom. Over the past decade, researchers have developed sophisticated online science learning environments to support these opportunities for scientific argumentation. Assessing the quality of dialogic argumentation,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Interrater Reliability, Concept Formation, Discourse Modes
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Seok, Bongrae – Cognitive Science, 2006
Since the publication of Fodor's (1983) The Modularity of Mind, there have been quite a few discussions of cognitive modularity among cognitive scientists. Generally, in those discussions, modularity means a property of specialized cognitive processes or a domain-specific body of information. In actuality, scholars understand modularity in many…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Debate, Discourse Analysis
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Stevenson, Robert B. – Environmental Education Research, 2006
For many scholars (see Smyth, 1995; Tilbury, 1995; Fien & Tilbury, 2002; Hopkins & McKeown, 2002) the emergence of the discourse of education for sustainable development (ESD) over the past 15 or so years is viewed as a progressive transition in the field, along similar lines to the positive portrayal of prior historical transitions from nature…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Persuasive Discourse, Sustainable Development
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Perry, Bob; Dockett, Sue – Early Child Development and Care, 1998
Explores the notion that some social interactions are more conducive to the construction of knowledge than others. Describes the use of argumentation as a learning tool during play by analyzing transcripts of the interactions of four-and-a-half year olds. Derives implications for early childhood education from these examples and from a theoretical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
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Hager, Paul – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2004
The notion of competence has received sustained and ongoing critical attention. Despite this, many important matters remain unclear. This article argues that much of the confusion can be traced to both proponents and opponents of competence variously sharing highly questionable assumptions about learning that revolve around viewing it as a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Vocational Education, Individual Development, Competence
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Gonzalez-Gaudiano, Edgar J. – Environmental Education Research, 2006
Since its acceptance as a pedagogic field, environmental education has experienced divergence and antagonism in its theoretical and methodological approaches and standpoints. In this paper, the author talks about the conflicting relationship between environmental education and education for sustainable development as well as the many discourses…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Persuasive Discourse, Environmental Research
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van Dijk, Teun A. – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Attempts to demonstrate the linkage between opinions, attitudes, and ideologies and to look for ways of explaining variation in opinions as well as in shared social dimensions of evaluative beliefs. The article argues that theories of discourse and ideologies, as well as the cognitive aspects of ideologies, should not be reduced to any partial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Context Effect, Cultural Influences
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Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Debates the use of concepts from cognitive psychology to explain the structuring of attitudes and opinions. The debate zeroes in on the structures of cognition, the reflexivity of attitudes, the function of the social context, the effect of ideology on the structures of vocabulary, the communication process, the role of ideology in organizing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Context Effect
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Svedberg, Lars – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
Managing organizations in modern societies takes place through persuasion and the seductive use of language rather than, as in past societies, through physical violence and repression. In this respect new management discourses imply a linguistic process where actors within education gradually become defined within other frames of reference. This…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Management Development, Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration