The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) is a professional and widely interdisciplinary society dedicated to the empirical investigation of learning as it exists in real-world settings and to how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology
The following is a paper that I will be presenting with doctoral student Max Sherard and centers on language, modeling, and power in an online modeling environment.
Abstract: We present a new methodology for demonstrating the connection between reasoning in interaction and larger sociopolitical discourses. We demonstrate this methodology in the context of modeling activities with preservice teachers. First, we explain critical discourse analysis, a methodology which illuminates how talk or text in social events is related to larger social practices or structures. Second, we describe how using critical discourse analysis with interaction data allows researchers to understand how language choices reflect larger discourses that circulate society. Finally, we demonstrate this methodology on a transcript of preservice elementary teachers reasoning about residential segregation using agent-based models.
Sherard, M. K. and Petrosino, A. J. (2021, June 7-11). Language, modeling, and power: A methodology for analyzing discourse in interaction [Conference presentation]. ISLS 2021 Convention, Bochum, Germany.
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