Bilingual Latino Students Learn Science for Fun While Developing Language and Cognition: Biophilia at a La Clase Mágica Site

Autor/in	Arreguín-Anderson, María G.
Titel	Bilingual Latino Students Learn Science for Fun While Developing Language and Cognition: Biophilia at a La Clase Mágica Site
Quelle	In: Global Education Review, 2 (2015) 2, S.43-58 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2325-663X
Schlagwörter	Hispanic American Students; Bilingual Students; Science Instruction; Elementary School Students; Mexican Americans; College School Cooperation; After School Programs; College Faculty; Undergraduate Students; School Community Programs; Interdisciplinary Approach; Second Language Learning; Language Skills; Thinking Skills; Active Learning; Qualitative Research; Bilingual Education; Notetaking; Student Projects; Biology; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Fakultät; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Denkfähigkeit; Aktives Lernen; Qualitative Forschung; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Schulprojekt; Biologie
Abstract	In this article, the author suggests that children's natural inclination to explore nature, or biophilia, can be explored as a factor that encourages both cognitive engagement and language development. The author summarizes the types of scientific inquiries that bilingual elementary students and their university partners engaged in when guided to design their own projects at a predominantly Mexican-American school. Children inquiries took place at a "La Clase Mágica" site, an after school program in which university undergraduates, faculty, bilingual children, and the community come together with the purpose of learning and exploring technology through interdisciplinary methodologies. The findings indicate that children overwhelmingly chose living organisms and life-like processes as the focus of their inquiries. The author presents the work of an exemplary dyad to illustrate how children engaged in scientific inquiry while developing language and complex thinking. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01