Faith R Conant
Biographic Data
| ID | 710986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faith R Conant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faith R |
| FAMILY NAME | Conant |
| SIGNATURE | CONANT F R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Guiding Principles for Fostering Productive Disciplinary Engagement: Explaining an Emergent Argument in a Community of Learners Classroom
This article suggests that productive disciplinary engagement can be fostered by designing learning environments that support (a) problematizing subject matter, (b) giving students authority to address such problems, (c) holding students accountable to others and to shared disciplinary norms, and (d) providing students with relevant resources. To provide empirical support for this suggestion, we use these 4 guiding principles to explain a case of…
Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory
Appropriating Scientific Discourse: Findings From Language Minority Classrooms
We report a study of the effects of a collaborative inquiry approach to science on language minority students' (middle and high school) learning. The emphasis in this approach is on involving the students, most of whom have never studied science before and some of whom have had very little schooling of any kind, in "doing science" in ways that practicing scientists do. The question addressed in this study is, To what extent do students appropriat…
Appropriating Scientific Discourse: Findings From Language Minority Classrooms
We report a study of the effects of a collaborative inquiry approach to science on language minority students' (middle and high school) learning. The emphasis in this approach is on involving the students, most of whom have never studied science before and some of whom have had very little schooling of any kind, in "doing science" in ways that practicing scientists do. The question addressed in this study is, To what extent do students appropriat…
Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory
Guiding Principles for Fostering Productive Disciplinary Engagement: Explaining an Emergent Argument in a Community of Learners Classroom
This article suggests that productive disciplinary engagement can be fostered by designing learning environments that support (a) problematizing subject matter, (b) giving students authority to address such problems, (c) holding students accountable to others and to shared disciplinary norms, and (d) providing students with relevant resources. To provide empirical support for this suggestion, we use these 4 guiding principles to explain a case of…
Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Argumentation theory (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Discipline (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (1 works)