Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching and Learning

This engaging and practical volume looks at discourse strategies and how they can be used to facilitate and enhance science teaching and learning within the classroom context.

Autorentext

Kok-Sing Tang is Associate Professor at the School of Education and the Discipline Lead of the STEM Education Research Group at Curtin University, Australia. He received a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Classroom Discourse 2. Theories of Classroom Discourse 3. Using Discourse To: Establish Classroom Activity and Interaction 4. Using Discourse To: Build and Assess Scientific Content Knowledge 5. Using Discourse To: Organize and Evaluate the Scientific Narrative 6. Using Discourse To: Enact Scientific Practices 7. Using Discourse To: Coordinate Multimodal Translation of Representations 8. Using Discourse To: Coordinate Multimodal Integration of Representations 9. Conclusion