Everyday Argumentation of 8th Grade High School Students in Physics Lesson
Abstract
Although the importance of argumentation as a scientific and teaching practice is widely accepted, it rarely occurs in classrooms. In this paper, recognizing the importance of the value of everyday argumentation practices in the course of students' initiation into scientific argumentation, we try to highlight the characteristics and structure of spontaneous argumentation that occurs in a high school physics class, when the students try to explain an unexpected event. The analysis of the research data showed that most students do not want to explain/justify phenomena that they do not understand or consider to be natural, while when they proceed to explanations/justifications they use data, reach a conclusion but do not use school knowledge as a warrant according Toulmin.
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- 14th Panhellenic Conference of Didactics in Science Education