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Sedawi, Wisam; Eshchar-Netz, Livat; Yakovov, Hasida; Vedder-Weiss, Dana – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Science teachers' professional learning about student motivation can play a key role in developing their ability to nurture student motivation and cope with motivational challenges. To advance the understanding of how on-the-job discussions facilitate teacher learning about student motivation, this study investigated how elementary-school science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
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Hufnagel, Elizabeth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Due to emotions' evaluative nature, they provide a lens for understanding personal and urgent engagement with events and experiences. Grounding this work in ethnography and sociolinguistics, I utilized discourse analysis to study the emotions of 30 preservice elementary teachers expressed about climate change in a science course. I describe the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Zhang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This article reports the results of an ethnographic research about the multimodal science discourse in a sixth-grade sheltered classroom involving English Language Learners (ELLs) only. Drawing from the perspective of multimodality, this study examines how science learning is constructed in science lectures through multiple semiotic resources,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Ethnography
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Grindstaff, Kelly; Richmond, Gail – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study investigates the interaction between four pairs of high school students in a 7-week national research apprenticeship program. Each student was interviewed about perceptions of experiences working with a peer in the same setting, and the resulting stories were analyzed. Through discourse analysis of the interviews and interrelated…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Discourse Analysis, Student Attitudes, Interviews
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Kelly, Gregory J.; Chen, Catherine – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes how oral and written-discourse processes in a high school physics class are related to sociocultural practices in scientific communities. Finds that students' appropriation of scientific discourse was related to the framing activities of the teachers and the social practices established over time in the classroom. Contains 74 references.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
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Reveles, John M.; Cordova, Ralph; Kelly, Gregory J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this article is to report findings from an ethnographic study that focused on the co-development of science literacy and academic identity formulation within a third-grade classroom. Our theoretical framework draws from sociocultural theory and studies of scientific literacy. Through analysis of classroom discourse, we identified…
Descriptors: Investigations, Ethnography, Scientific Literacy, Grade 3