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Evans, J. Daryll – Journal of Biological Education, 1976
Investigated was the kind of communication that takes place in oral teaching. Analysis of tape-recorded transcripts of fifteen half-hour biology lessons delivered to high school and college students revealed a high degree of teacher-dominance and infrequency of discussion involving several pupils. (CS)
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Kelly, Gregory J.; Chen, Catherine – 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the epistemology of a discipline is interactionally accomplished, acknowledged, and appropriated in a university oceanography course. Drawing from sociological and anthropological studies of scientific communities, this study uses an ethnographic perspective to explore how teachers and students came to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Discourse Analysis, Epistemology, Ethnography