Improving preservice teachers' scientific argumentative writing through epistemic practices

Improving preservice teachers' argumentative competence is a social and educational imperative. This study focuses on the contribution of a sequence of learning tasks, designed as epistemic practices and following a learning progression approach, to enhancing student teachers' scientific a...

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Autores: Álvarez Valdivia, Ibis Marlene|||0000-0002-3250-3214, Lafuente Martínez, Marc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:287053
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/287053
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/02607476.2018.1548172
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Argumentative writing
Escriptura argumentativa
Epistemic practices
Pràctiques epistèmiques
Learning progression
Progressió d'aprenentatge
Scientific argumentation
Argumentació científica
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Sumario:Improving preservice teachers' argumentative competence is a social and educational imperative. This study focuses on the contribution of a sequence of learning tasks, designed as epistemic practices and following a learning progression approach, to enhancing student teachers' scientific argumentative writing. The participants were 47 preservice primary teachers who enrolled in a Developmental Psychology course, and one lecturer. Preservice teachers progressively acquired the vast majority of aspects involved in scientific argumentative writing. The most important difficulties experienced by the preservice teachers revolved around intertextuality and the creation of theses. Key conclusions on this teacher education experience are presented in the final section of the paper.