Epistemic Purposes to Prompt Argumentation in inquiry-based classes

Considering the growth in interest on argumentation in research on science education, in this paper our goal is to propose an overview of actions taken by a teacher that made possible to establish and mediate production of arguments by the students in classroom. For this purpose, we analyze a physic...

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Main Authors: Arthur Tadeu Ferraz, Lúcia Helena Sasseron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2017-04-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:https://www.if.ufrgs.br/cref/ojs/index.php/ienci/article/view/312
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Summary:Considering the growth in interest on argumentation in research on science education, in this paper our goal is to propose an overview of actions taken by a teacher that made possible to establish and mediate production of arguments by the students in classroom. For this purpose, we analyze a physics lesson where discussions were about light duality, through a planned inquiry-based sequence teaching. We developed a set of codes called Epistemic Purposes for Promotion of Argumentation that allow understanding teacher's purposes as well his actions to promote argumentation among students during inquiry-based lessons. According to theoretical proposition and empirical analysis, it was revealed that the construction of arguments by students has a high dependence on how ideas are problematized by teacher. The construction of understanding  by students requires teacher actions that result in contributions of different kinds.
ISSN:1518-8795