Scaffolding Science Talk: The role of teachers' questions in the inquiry classroom
Scaffolding Science Talk: The role of teachers' questions in the inquiry classroom
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支架式科学讲座:教师提问在探究课堂中的作用
DOI:
10.1080/09500693.2011.604684
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
J. Vijapurkar
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作者:
Aisha Kawalkar;J. Vijapurkar
Teachers' questions in the inquiry classroom not only explore and make student thinking explicit in the class but also serve to guide and scaffold it. Several studies analysing teachers' questions and their categories have been reported; however the need for a fine-grained analysis has been felt, especially in the inquiry setting. This study attempts a fine-grained analysis of the rich variety of teachers' questions and their roles in an inquiry science classroom, which are illustrated with vignettes from our classes. We present a sequential typology of teachers' questions that emerged from this empirical study, one that brings out their progression in an inquiry class. We juxtapose them with the ones asked during traditional teaching. We also examine, through teachers' self-reports, their motivations for questioning. This work leads towards a characterisation of the complex process of teaching science as an inquiry that teachers interested in moving towards more constructivist teaching practices in their classrooms may find helpful.