Epistemic Agency for Costructuring Expansive Knowledge-Building Practices

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Jianwei; Tian, Yan; Yuan, Guangji; Tao, Dan
Titel	Epistemic Agency for Costructuring Expansive Knowledge-Building Practices
Quelle	In: Science Education, 106 (2022) 4, S.890-923 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhang, Jianwei)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326
DOI	10.1002/sce.21717
Schlagwörter	Science Education; Inquiry; Grade 5; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Science; Epistemology; Human Body; Electronic Learning; Cooperation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Erkenntnistheorie; Menschlicher Körper; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	As a hallmark of authentic science practices, students need to enact epistemic agency to shape/reshape the key aspects of their inquiry work as a collaborative community. This study elaborates an emergent temporal mechanism for engaging students' epistemic agency: "reflective structuration" by which members of a classroom community coconstruct ever-evolving inquiry directions and group structures as their collective inquiry work proceeds. Using an interactional ethnography method, we examined how students (n = 22) in a Grade 5 classroom coconstructed shared inquiry directions and flexible group structures to guide their sustained inquiry about human body systems over 7 months supported by a collaborative online environment. Rich data were collected to trace the work of the eye inquiry group as a telling case. With their teacher's support, students took agentic moves to construct an evolving set of wondering areas as a way to frame what their whole class needed to investigate. Flexible groups, such as the eye inquiry group, emerged and evolved in the various areas, leading to progressively deepening inquiry and extensive idea exchanges among students. Implications for research and practice are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01