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Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms
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Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms Hardback - 2005

by Wolff-Michael Roth

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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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  • Title Talking Science: Language and Learning in Science Classrooms
  • Author Wolff-Michael Roth
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publication date 2005-06
  • ISBN 9780742537064 / 0742537064
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.68 x 1.11 in (23.47 x 16.97 x 2.82 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and languages - Study and teaching, Science - Study and teaching
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005006895
  • Dewey Decimal Code 507.1

About the author

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

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