Consensus Construction as a Collective Task in Mexican Science Classes

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ID2470461
AuthorsAntonia Candela (0000-0002-9001-4451, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume26
Issue4
Pages458-474
Publication date1995-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aeq.1995.26.4.05x1064x
OpenAlexW2080669928
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited24

In this article, discourse analysis focuses on the orientation of teachers' and children's classroom discourse toward the construction of a consensual version of science knowledge, even though a consensus is not always reached. This orientation, in which children and teachers shared as active participants the activity's proposals, can be seen as a collective way of developing the zone of proximal development (ZPD) in a cooperative context where the ZPD is the social product of the interaction, rather than the individual effect of the action undertaken by an adult on a child. Discourse orientation toward consensus can be seen as a cultural feature of the interactional dynamics in some school classes in Mexico

Context (archaeology) · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Orientation (vector space) · Pedagogy · Sociology · Zone of proximal development · Educational theories and practices · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology

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