Analyzing Commitment Prompting to Construct Scientific Concepts in Discourses : Analyzing The Unit "Appearance of Heating" in The Fourth Grade

Abstract

In this study, we analyzed discourses of children's problem solving processes, with three steps of commitments. By analyzing science classes with these steps, as a result, we revealed that teacher assessed children's activities of constructing scientific concepts, and prompted these activities by progressing discourses. And we observed children's appropriations of knowledge as a consensus within colleagues, as a barometer of a formation of learning. In other words, it showed that a conscious and deliberate character of scientific concepts was prompted through such a collaborative learning as discourse.