NDLI: Heterogeneous performances of conceptual dis/continuity: a dialectic reading of Brown and Kloser’s article

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Author	Hwang, SungWon Kim, Mijung
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	We review Brown and Kloser’s article, “Conceptual continuity and the science of baseball: using informal science literacy to promote students science learning” from a Vygotskian cultural-historical and dialectic perspective. Brown and Kloser interpret interview data with student baseball players and claim that students’ conceptual understanding articulated in vernacular genres involves continuities (similarities) with the canonical scientific explanations. In this commentary, we suggest that the authors’ approach presupposes the dichotomy of the formal and the informal, which brings the authors’ attention to continuity into the separation of cognition from language. We propose a Vygotskian approach that points out the problem of theorizing cognition (conceptual understanding) by depending on specific forms of representation (e.g., scientific terms). As alternative, we envision a Vygotskian cultural-historical approach to language, which considers different, irreducible modes of communication as an integrated whole and therefore allows theorizing cognition without dichotomizing it from the concrete ways by which human being communicates. We provide an exemplary analysis of a lecture talk in a university physics classroom and exemplify dialectic theories that explain the development of conceptual understanding. We discuss that this Vygotskian dialectic approach shows that people communicate scientific concepts through hybridization, which does not reproduce a genre self-identically; the continuity of conceptual understanding involves dis/continuity.
Starting Page	899
Ending Page	911
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18711502
Journal	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18711510
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-04-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Language Conception Hybridization Genre Dis/continuity Sociology of Education Science Education Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cultural Studies

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