Explaining Science In The Classroom
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 1996
162 pages
978-0-335-23244-4 (ISBN)
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Is explaining science just an art, or can it be described, taught and learned? That is the question posed by this book. From extensive classroom observations, the authors give vivid descriptions of how teachers explain science to students, and provide the
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Jon Ogborn | Gunther Kress | Isabel Martins
EXPLAINING SCIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
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11/1996
Open University Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Classrooms, explaining and science
- Who are we?
- What is there to understand about explaining science?
- Explaining: some examples
- Where do we come from?
- Our theoretical framework: an overview
- The structure of the book
- Chapter 2 Opening up differences
- A difference of opinion
- What drives explanation?
- Creating interest
- 'What we're going to do next'
- What do you expect?
- Two main kinds of difference
- Chapter 3 The construction of entities
- New things from old
- Making a new conceptual entity
- Why 'entities'?
- Resources for explanations
- Process entities
- Entities and their parts
- Prototypical explanations
- Chapter 4 Reworking knowledge
- Transforming knowledge
- Change and constancy
- Knowledge made and transformed
- Didactic transposition
- Explanatory icebergs: filling up atoms with electrons
- Stories, parables and narratives
- Analogy and metaphor
- Chapter 5 Demonstration: putting meaning into matter
- What is demonstration?
- Vexing nature by art
- Alkali metals: meaning-making with matter
- Expectation and counterexpectation
- Meaning and material action
- 'What is demonstration, again?'
- Chapter 6 Dynamics of explanation
- Sources of variation
- Explanatory structures
- The teacher
- The ongoing interaction
- The subject matter to be explained
- Chapter 7 'Styles' of explaining
- Integrating performances
- 'Let's think it through together'
- The teller of tales'
- 'Say it my way'
- 'See it my way'
- Chapter 8 What now, and what next?
- Concluding and looking forward
- Assumptions
- Results
- What do we claim?
- What next?
- Appendix Context and sources
- Context
- Sources
- Index
- Back Cover
