Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms (Reverberations: Contemporary Curriculum and Pedagogy) - Softcover

Roth, Wolff-Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742537072 ISBN 13: 9780742537071

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which we navigate and know the world-the very medium through which we do science. In Talking Science Wolff-Michael Roth articulates a view of language that differs from the way science educators generally think about it. Knowing language, in this view, is no longer distinct from knowing one's way around a particular section of the world. It is a non-representational view of language and dispenses with language as a barrier between the individual subject and the world it knows. In addition, the book includes detailed analyses from actual classrooms to exemplify what such a different approach means for science education. The conclusion is that once we have learned new ways of articulating the world and talking about it, we also have learned to handle this world more easily.

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About the Author

Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor, Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742537072
• ISBN 13: 9780742537071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256