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Dialogic Discourse In Linguistically Diverse Elementary Mathematics Classes: Lessons Learned From Dual Language Classrooms, Mary Truxaw
NERA Conference Proceedings 2015
This research investigated discourse in linguistically diverse elementary mathematics classrooms on a continuum from univocal (transmitting meaning) to dialogic (dialogue to construct meaning). Although analysis revealed predominantly univocal discourse in these classrooms, it also uncovered verbal moves and promising practices for supporting English learners with dialogic discourse and mathematical understanding.
Geographers And The Discourse Of An Earth Transformed: Influencing The Intellectual Weather Or Changing The Intellectual Climate?, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article considers how geographers might choose to respond to many geoscientists' claims that we are entering 'the age of humans'. These claims, expressed in the concepts of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and global tipping points, make epochal claims about Earth surface change that are also far-reaching claims upon Earth's current inhabitants. The scale and scope of their normative implications are extraordinarily grand. After describing the content and wider context for these claims, the history of some geographers' engagement with global change research is sketched and their current contributions described. Wider alterations in the modus operandi of global change scientists …
A Figural Education With Lyotard, Derek R. Ford
A Figural Education With Lyotard, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
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