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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Autores: Ferraz, Arthur Tadeu, Sasseron, Lúcia Helena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Investigações em ensino de ciências
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.if.ufrgs.br:article/312
Acceso en línea:https://ienci.if.ufrgs.br/index.php/ienci/article/view/312
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Argumentation
Inquiry-based teaching
Epistemic Practices
Argumentação
Ensino por Investigação
Práticas Epistêmicas
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Sumario: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.