Book chapter
THE FACE-TOFACE LANGUAGE OF ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS IN URBAN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
Literacies of Design, p102
15 May 2022
Abstract
Innovative and collaborative problem solving, central to engineering, are key for 21st-century learning (Donovan et al., 1999), yet the dominant instructional focus in many low-income, minority-serving school districts offers the opposite. Students in urban schools represent a large segment of learners who lack exposure to the broad and sophisticated curriculum they actually need (Milner, 2013). In schools where the content of classroom instruction is narrowly defined, and the expectations for student responses are predetermined, opportunities for engagement with higher level thinking are lost. There is a disconnect between classrooms where student thinking is constrained by narrowly focused, test-based instruction preventing
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- Title
- THE FACE-TOFACE LANGUAGE OF ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS IN URBAN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
- Creators
- PATRICIA PaughKRISTEN WendellCHRISTOPHER Wright
- Contributors
- Amy Wilson-Lopez (Editor)Eli Tucker-Raymond (Editor)Alberto Esquinca (Editor)Joel Alejandro Mejia (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Literacies of Design, p102
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
- Other Identifier
- 991021893596904721