Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Scanlon, Eileen; Collins, Trevor; Gaved, Mark; Mulholland, Paul; Jones, Ann; Clough, Gill and Blake, Canan
(2012).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.lcsi.2012.05.001 |
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Abstract
The popular conceptualisation of school fieldtrips as discrete events which students attend fails to recognise the complex sense-making processes in which students are engaged during fieldtrip activities. To address this shortcoming, we investigate the sense-making activities of two case-study groups of 14-year-old students during a Geography fieldtrip exploring urban heat islands. Throughout, they accessed an inquiry learning tool kit – nQuire - on netbooks. A contemporary form of socio cultural discourse analysis was employed. Our findings illustrate how students extended their classroom learning through the identification and solution of a range of emergent challenges 1) what relevant data needs to be collected here? 2) where do we position ourselves, in relation to environmental features, to collect air temperature and carbon monoxide data? and 3) which surfaces do we collect infrared irradiance data from? We propose that situated improvisatory interpretation is a key feature of the resolution of these challenges. We offer significant extension to illustrate how students draw upon a wide range of multimodal resources to support improvisatory interpretation and we identify the role of bodily location in data collection. These findings make an important contribution to enhancing our understanding of the sense-making processes involved when doing Geography in the field.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Elsevier Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 2210-6561 |
| Funders: | EPSRC/ESRC |
| Keywords: | geography; inquiry; multimodal; fieldtrip; situated improvisational interpretation |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Education and Language Studies > Childhood, Development and Learning Education and Language Studies Institute of Educational Technology Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 33679 |
| Depositing User: | Lucinda Kerawalla |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2012 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2013 12:09 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33679 |
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