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Article: Promoting knowledge creation discourse in an Asian primary five classroom: Results from an inquiry into life cycles

TitlePromoting knowledge creation discourse in an Asian primary five classroom: Results from an inquiry into life cycles
Authors
KeywordsDiscourse
Inquiry-based teaching
Internet
Nature of science
Primary school
Issue Date2011
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09500693.asp
Citation
International Journal of Science Education, 2011, v. 33 n. 4, p. 487-515 How to Cite?
AbstractThe phrase 'knowledge creation' refers to the practices by which a community advances its collective knowledge. Experience with a model of knowledge creation could help students to learn about the nature of science. This research examined how much progress a teacher and 16 Primary Five (Grade 4) students in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme could make towards the discourse needed for Bereiter and Scardamalia's model of knowledge creation. The study consisted of two phases: a five-month period focusing on the development of the classroom ethos and skills needed for this model (Phase 1), followed by a two-month inquiry into life cycles (Phase 2). In Phase 1, we examined the classroom practices that are thought to support knowledge creation and the early experiences of the students with a web-based inquiry environment, Knowledge Forum®. In Phase 2, we conducted a summative evaluation of the students' work in Knowledge Forum in the light of the model. The data sources included classroom video recordings, artefacts of the in-class work, the Knowledge Forum database, a science content test, questionnaires, and interviews. The findings indicate that the students made substantial progress towards the knowledge creation discourse, particularly regarding the social structure of this kind of discourse and, to a lesser extent, its idea-centred nature. They also made acceptable advances in scientific knowledge and appeared to enjoy this way of learning. The study provides one of the first accounts in the literature of how a teacher new to the knowledge creation model enacted it in an Asian primary classroom. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/129407
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2023 Impact Factor: 2.2
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.965
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dc.description.abstractThe phrase 'knowledge creation' refers to the practices by which a community advances its collective knowledge. Experience with a model of knowledge creation could help students to learn about the nature of science. This research examined how much progress a teacher and 16 Primary Five (Grade 4) students in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme could make towards the discourse needed for Bereiter and Scardamalia's model of knowledge creation. The study consisted of two phases: a five-month period focusing on the development of the classroom ethos and skills needed for this model (Phase 1), followed by a two-month inquiry into life cycles (Phase 2). In Phase 1, we examined the classroom practices that are thought to support knowledge creation and the early experiences of the students with a web-based inquiry environment, Knowledge Forum®. In Phase 2, we conducted a summative evaluation of the students' work in Knowledge Forum in the light of the model. The data sources included classroom video recordings, artefacts of the in-class work, the Knowledge Forum database, a science content test, questionnaires, and interviews. The findings indicate that the students made substantial progress towards the knowledge creation discourse, particularly regarding the social structure of this kind of discourse and, to a lesser extent, its idea-centred nature. They also made acceptable advances in scientific knowledge and appeared to enjoy this way of learning. The study provides one of the first accounts in the literature of how a teacher new to the knowledge creation model enacted it in an Asian primary classroom. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.en_HK
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dc.rightsThis is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Science Education, 2011, v. 33 n. 4, p. 487-515. Journal article is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500691003649656-
dc.subjectDiscourseen_HK
dc.subjectInquiry-based teachingen_HK
dc.subjectInterneten_HK
dc.subjectNature of scienceen_HK
dc.subjectPrimary schoolen_HK
dc.titlePromoting knowledge creation discourse in an Asian primary five classroom: Results from an inquiry into life cyclesen_HK
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