{"product_id":"dialogical-argumentation-and-reasoning-in-elementary-science-classrooms-9789004392557","title":"Dialogical Argumentation and Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScience educators have come to recognize children’s reasoning and problem solving skills as crucial ingredients of scientific literacy. As a consequence, there has been a concurrent, widespread emphasis on argumentation as a way of developing critical and creative minds. Argumentation has been of increasing interest in science education as a means of actively involving students in science and, thereby, as a means of promoting their learning, reasoning, and problem solving. Many approaches to teaching argumentation place primacy on teaching the structure of the argumentative genre prior to and at the beginning of participating in argumentation. Such an approach, however, is unlikely to succeed because to meaningfully learn the structure (grammar) of argumentation, one already needs to be competent in argumentation. This book offers a different approach to children’s argumentation and reasoning based on dialogical relations, as the origin of internal dialogue (inner speech) and higher psychological functions. In this approach, argumentation first exists as dialogical relation, for participants who are in a dialogical relation with others, and who employ argumentation for the purpose of the dialogical relation. With the multimodality of dialogue, this approach expands argumentation into another level of physicality of thinking, reasoning, and problem solving in classrooms. By using empirical data from elementary classrooms, this book explains how argumentation emerges and develops in and from classroom interactions by focusing on thinking and reasoning through\/in relations with others and the learning environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures and Tables    1 Argumentation Research in Science Education   Toulmin Argument Patterns   Dialogue and Presumptive Argumentation   Scientific Reasoning through Argumentation   Overview    2 Vygotsky’s Spinozist Perspectives on Language   The Real Life of Language   From Meaning to Sense   The Sense-giving Contexture   The Lived World Indicated by the Sign   The System of Signs   Sign-use as an Expressive Act   Sign-use as a Communicative Act   The Communicative Act as Soliciting a Behavior   The In-order-to Motive and the Now, Here, and Thus of the Communicative Act    3 Children’s Reasoning and Problem Solving   The Complexity of Young Children’s Reasoning   What is Evidence?   Evidence in Nested Sense-giving Contexture    4 Argumentation as Joint Action   The Social Nature of the Word   Argumentation and Emergence   Laying the Garden Path in Walking   Individualizing Collective Claims and Evidence   Resolution of Contradictions and Emergence of New Trouble   The Social Nature of Argumentation    5 The Role of Physical Objects in Science Lessons   The Commonness and Difference of Physical Objects   Abstraction: What is Happening in the Real Event?   Physical Objects that Contribute to the Making of Sense   Learning with Physical Objects    6 Argumentation and Inscriptions   A Lesson Fragment   From Explaining an Observation to Warranting a Claim   Inscriptions in the Establishment of a Warrant   Opportunities Arising from Working on the Chalkboard    7 Argumentation and the Thinking Body   Position and Disposition   Thinking and Speech   Unity\/Identity of Body and Mind   On Overcoming the Psychophysical Problem    8 Teaching Argumentation in Elementary Science   Attending to the Physicality of Argumentation   Pointing and Formulating   Being a Member of a Problem-Solving Community    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210769817943,"sku":"9789004392557","price":48.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dialogical-argumentation-and-reasoning-in-elementary-science-classrooms-9789004392557","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}