Dialogue, Argumentation and Education - Schwarz, Baruch. B

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Résumé :
New pedagogical visions and technological developments have brought argumentation to the fore of educational practice. Whereas students previously 'learned to 'argue', they now 'argue to learn': collaborative argumentation-based learning has become a popular and valuable pedagogical technique, across a variety of tasks and disciplines. Researchers have explored the conditions under which arguing to learn is successful, have described some of its learning potentials (such as for conceptual change and reflexive learning) and have developed Internet-based tools to support such learning. However, the further advancement of this field presently faces several problems, which the present book addresses. Three dimensions of analysis - historical, theoretical and empirical - are integrated throughout the book. Given the nature of its object of study - dialogue, interaction, argumentation, learning and teaching - the book is resolutely multidisciplinary, drawing on research on learning in educational and psychological sciences, as well as on philosophical and linguistic theories of dialogue and argumentation....

Biographie:
Baruch B. Schwarz is the Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Chair of Early Childhood Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research includes various domains such as mathematical abstraction, or collaborative learning, but his main interest focuses on the study of argumentation in learning contexts. He has extensively published on this topic and has co-created the Special Group Interest in Argumentation, Reasoning and Dialogue at the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction. He has shown the crucial role of technologies in boosting collaborative learning and argumentation, and has coordinated numerous multi-national EC funded projects dedicated to computer-supported collaborative learning and argumentation.

Sommaire:
Foreword Lauren B. Resnick and Faith Schantz; Preface; 1. Beginnings; 2. Changes in the role of talk in education: philosophical and ideological revolutions; 3. Argumentation theory for education; 4. The pervasive role of argumentation according to progressive pedagogies; 5. Argumentative interactions in the classroom; 6. Argumentative design; 7. Conclusion.