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Erschienen in: Cultural Studies of Science Education 3/2012

01.09.2012

Hybrid discourse practice and science learning

verfasst von: George Kamberelis, Mary D. Wehunt

Erschienen in: Cultural Studies of Science Education | Ausgabe 3/2012

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Abstract

In this article, we report on a study of how creative linguistic practices (which we call hybrid discourse practices) were enacted by students in a fifth-grade science unit on barn owls and how these practices helped to produce a synergistic micro-community of scientific practice in the classroom that constituted a fertile space for students (and the teacher) to construct emergent but increasingly legitimate and dynamic disciplinary knowledges and identities. Our findings are important for the ways in which they demonstrate (a) how students use hybrid discourse practices to self-scaffold their work within complex curricular tasks and when they are not completely sure about how to enact these tasks (b) how hybrid discourse practices can promote inquiry orientations to science, (c) how hybrid discourse practices index new and powerful forms of science pedagogy, and (d) how hybrid discourse practices are relevant to more global issues such as the crucial roles of language fluency and creativity, which are known prerequisites for advanced science learning and which aid students in developing skills that are necessary for entry into science and technology careers.

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Transcription Key (Adapted from Atkinson & Heritage 1984)
underline marks emphatic
CAPS mark very emphatic stress
: indicates a lengthened vowel sound (extra colons indicate greater lengthening)
(X) indicates transcription of word impossible (extra Xs indicate additional words)
((italicized double parentheses)) contain contextualization commentary
{curly brackets} indicate a false start
= indicates utterances latched on to one another, without perceptible pauses
[brackets between lines indicate overlapping speech.
 
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House, M.D. is an American medical television series that began on the Fox network in 2004. The cynical and mistrusting central character, medical genius Gregory House, heads up a team of diagnosticians at a fictional teaching hospital in New Jersey.
 
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Grey’s Anatomy is an American medical comedy/drama television series that began in 2005 on ABC. The series profiles the lives of interns, residents and their medical supervisors at a fictional hospital in Seattle as they attempt to balance their medical careers, professional alliances and personal lives.
 
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime/drama television series that began on CBS in 2000. The original series profiles Las Vegas criminologists and the physical evidence and scientific procedures they use to investigate and solve murders. Spin-offs shows are located in Miami and New York.
 
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Beavis and Butthead is an American animated cartoon series that MTV produced from 1983 to 1997. The central characters are two rude and obnoxious Texas teenagers who harass their friends and teachers, with occasional serious consequences, spend their days watching music videos and skipping school.
 
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This kind of discourse is called “mushfake” by Gee (1996), and he argues that it serves precisely this function. Bartholomae (1985) suggests that such loose fitting language functions as a bootstrapping device as well.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Hybrid discourse practice and science learning
verfasst von
George Kamberelis
Mary D. Wehunt
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2012
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Cultural Studies of Science Education / Ausgabe 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1871-1502
Elektronische ISSN: 1871-1510
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9395-1

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