Teacher Guidance of Knowledge Construction

Download or read book Teacher Guidance of Knowledge Construction written by Baruch Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on how teachers guide construction of knowledge in classrooms. We suggest that guidance hinges on the kind of dialogue teachers choose to engage students in. We propose several classroom dialogue types relevant for the construction of knowledge and suggest that critical dialogue is particularly effective for knowledge construction. We describe a lesson on probability conducted in a Grade 8 classroom in order to illustrate how a teacher chooses dialogue types, and to what extent she attends during dialogue to epistemic actions, which are constitutive of knowledge construction. [For complete proceedings, see ED489597.].