Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

December 2009

Publication Title

Informal Logic

Volume

29

Issue Number

4

First Page

417

Last Page

446

DOI

10.22329/il.v29i4.2907

Keywords

argumentation, argumentative discourse, discourse goals, dialogue, scientific reasoning, science learning, deliberation

Disciplines

Educational Psychology | Rhetoric | Science and Mathematics Education

Abstract

Researchers in science education have converged on the view that argumentation can be an effective intervention for promoting knowledge construction in science classrooms.However, the impact of such interventions may be mediated by individuals’ task goals while arguing. In argumentative discourse, one can distinguish two overlapping but distinct kinds of activity: dispute and deliberation. In dispute the goal is to defend a conclusion by undermining alternatives, whereas in deliberation the goal is to arrive at a conclusion by contrasting alternatives. In this study, we examine the impact of these discourse goals on both content learning and argument quality in science.

Comments

Copyright The Authors.Deliberation versus Dispute: The Impact of Argumentative Discourse Goals on Learning and Reasoning in the Science Classroom was originally published in Informal Logic, 2009, Volume 29, Number 4, pp. 417-446. It can also be found online at this link: https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v29i4.2907

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