Thinking Practices in Mathematics and Science Learning

Contents: Introduction. S.V. Goldman, J.G. Greeno, Thinking Practices: Images of Thinking and Learning in Education. Part I: Participation and Identity in Practice.M.K. Stein, E.A. Silver, M.S. Smith, Mathematics Reform and Teacher Development: A Community of Practice Perspective. M. Lampert, Studying Teaching as a Thinking Practice. J. Greeno, Trajectories of Participation and Practice: Some Dynamic Aspects for the Thinking Practices of Teaching, Educational Design, and Research. L. Godfrey, R.P. Moses, M.C. O'Connor, The Missing Data Point: Negotiating Purposes in Classroom Mathematics and Science. S.L. Star, Leaks of Experience: The Link Between Science and Knowledge. P. Eckert, Entitled to Know. Part II: Accomplishing Thinking Practices.A.A. diSessa, J. Minstrell, Cultivating Conceptual Change With Benchmark Lessons. A. Rubin, R. Hall, ...There's Five Little Notches in Here: Dilemmas in Teaching and Learning the Conventional Structure of Rate. G.B. Saxe, S.R Guberman, Emergent Arithmetical Environments in the Context of Distributed Problem Solving: Analyses of Children Playing an Educational Game. S. Goldman, Researching and Revisiting the Thinking Curriculum. M. Lynch, D. Macbeth, Demonstrating Physics Lessons. A.H. Schoenfeld, Making Mathematics and Making Pasta From Cookbook Procedures to Really Cooking. R. McDermott, V. Webber, When Is Math or Science? A.L. Brown, S. Ellery, J.C. Campione, Creating Zones of Proximal Development Electronically. M. Riel, Learning Communities Through Computer Networking. A. Collins, Learning Communities: A Commentary on Papers by Brown, Ellery, and Campione, and by Riel.