Teaching Science: Knowledge, Language, Pedagogy (Legitimation Code Theory)

by J. R. Martin (Editor), Karl Maton (Editor), Y. J. Doran (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $40.99

  Science education research has contributed to understanding the pre-scientific conceptions and motivation that students bring to learning science, but what they are learning - the pedagogic discourse of science - has received less attention. This book addresses this gap by using Legitimation Code Theory and Systemic Functional Linguistics to explore the knowledge practices and multimodal discourses of classroom sciences. It explores a wide range of scientific disciplines and educational issues in primary, secondary and tertiary education, to show how the knowledge of science is activated in classrooms and how this knowledge is generated through language and multimodal discourse.