| Owner: |
Rebekah Snyder
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| Owner Email: |
rerh2@umsystem.edu
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| Paper Title: |
Switching Genres: An Exploration of Student Agency Through Multiple Modes of Instruction
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| Session Title: |
Expanding Experiences and Intended Outcomes Around STEM Learning (Table 17)
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| Paper Type: |
Roundtable Presentation
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| Presentation Date: |
4/11/2024
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| Presentation Location: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Descriptors: |
Classroom Research, Elementary Schools, Science Education
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
Rebekah Snyder, University of Missouri; Laura Zangori, University of Missouri
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| Unit: |
SIG-Learning Sciences
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| Abstract: |
This project focuses on mixed age (1st - 4th grade) small student group discourse to identify student transformations of science practice structures while learning.As detailed by Emibayer (1998, pg 970) “...agency is not a possession of an individual, but a moment of engagement between an individual and a structure.” Structures are the contexts in which agency takes place (Giddens 1984). Our framework utilizes multimodal discourse analysis of genres defined as experimentation, and argumentation (Tang, Park, & Chang 2022). Findings suggest within the experimentation and argumentation genres, students may disrupt assigned objective structures, but cannot switch genres to/from experimentation and argumentation. Results imply that collective student groups take agentic acts when a powerful force dictates, such as a teacher or student.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2111930
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