Journal Title
Title of Journal: Sci Educ
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Abbravation: Science & Education
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Aikaterini Konstantinidou Fabrizio Macagno
Publish Date: 2012/12/07
Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 1069-1087
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the argumentative structure of students’ arguments using argumentation schemes as an instrument for reconstructing the missing premises underlying their reasoning Building on the recent literature in science education in order for an explanation to be persuasive and achieve a conceptual change it needs to proceed from the interlocutor’s background knowledge to the analysis of the unknown or wrongly interpreted phenomena Argumentation schemes represent the abstract forms of the most used and common forms of human reasoning combining logical principles with semantic concepts By identifying the argument structure it is possible to retrieve the missing premises and the crucial concepts and definition on which the conclusion is based This method of analysis will be shown to provide the teacher with an instrument to improve his or her explanations by taking into consideration the students’ intuitions and deep background knowledge on a specific issue In this fashion the teacher can advance counterarguments or propose new perspectives on the subject matter in order to persuade the students to accept new scientific conceptsThis research was financially supported by the Institute of Education Sciences ICE Universitat de Barcelona project REDICE2010 100106 and by the Association for Research in Education Sciences ARCE Universitat de Barcelona project ARCE2011 both coordinated by Marina Castells
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