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Emotions as Mediators of Science Education in an Urban High School

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Transforming Urban Education

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This research employs multiple methods in a multi level investigation of the ways in which emotions afford interactions and participation in a science class and an associated cogenerative dialogue (cogen). A teacher researcher identified a vignette involving an altercation he had with a student in which anger and frustration mediated what happened.

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Tobin, K., Llena, R. (2014). Emotions as Mediators of Science Education in an Urban High School. In: Tobin, K., Shady, A. (eds) Transforming Urban Education. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-563-2_13

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