Download or read book Meaning Making In Secondary Science Classroomsaa written by Mortimer, Eduardo and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the talk of science classrooms and in particular on the ways in which the different kinds of interactions between teachers and students contribute to meaning making and learning. Central to the text is a new analytical framework for characterising the key features of the talk of school science classrooms. This framework is based on sociocultural principles and links the work of theorists such as Vygotsky and Bakhtin to the day-to-day interactions of contemporary science classrooms.