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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Tasker, Tammy; White, Barbara – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
This article examines the pedagogical practices of two science inquiry teachers and their students using a Web-based system called Web of Inquiry (WOI). There is a need to build a collective repertoire of pedagogical practices that can assist elementary and middle school teachers as they support students to develop a complex model of inquiry based…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, School Culture, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Cornelius, Lindsay L.; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
Changes in participant structures in classroom environments are often examined in terms of their effects on student learning. In this study, we proposed a way of examining participant structures in terms of power. According to Wertsch (1998) "the emergence of new cultural tools transforms power and authority" (p. 65). When researchers or teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship
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Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Guerra, Marion R. – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Examined the complex interactions among student engagement, scientific-thinking practices, and student role taking and social interaction in the context of school-based science lessons. Found that students in an intellectual-roles plus audience-roles condition were more active in initiating engagement episodes than those in intellectual roles only…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades