Instructional explanations in the disciplines

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Stein Mary Kay.; Kucan Linda.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0594-9
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiv, 237 p.): ill.
ISBN: 9781441905949 (electronic bk.)
1441905944 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: G424
CLC: G424
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Explaining Instructional Explanations / Gaea Leinhardt -- Part I Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Leaming of Science -- What Kind of Explanation is a Model? / Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble -- Leaming, Identity, and Instructional Explanations / Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and Tatiana Muñoz -- Leaming Chemistry: What, When, and How? / David Yaron, Michael Karabinos, Karen Evans, Jodi Davenport, Jordi C.uadros, and James Greeno -- Negotiating the Goal of Museum Inquiry : How Families Engineer and Experiment / Kyung Youn Kim and Kevin Crowley -- Part 11 Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Leaming of Mathematics -- A Framing of Instructional Explanations: Let Us Explain With You / Carla van de Sande and James G. Greeno -- How and Why Do Teachers Explain Things the Way They Do? / Alan H. Schoenfeld -- The Explanatory Power of Examples in Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching / Orit Zaslavsky -- Using Designed Instructional Activities to Enable Novices to Manage Ambitious Mathematics Teaching / Magdalene Lampert, Heather Beasley, Hala Ghousseini, Elham Kazemi, and Megan Franke -- Part III Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Leaming of the Humanities -- Leaming History and Leaming Language: Focusing on Language in Historical Explanations to Support English Language Leamers / Mariana Achugar and Catherine Stainton -- Instructional Explanations in a Legal Classroom: Are Students' Argument Diagrams of Hypothetical Reasoning Diagnostic? / / Kevin D. Ashley and Collin Lynch -- Connecting with Art: How Families Talk About Art in a Museum Setting / Karen Knutson and Kevin Crowley -- Developing Writing Skills Through Students Giving Instructional Explanations / Kwangsu Cho and Christian Schunn.