Doris Ash
University of California, Santa Cruz
33 Papers
63 Citations
Doris Ash is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Informal learning & Informal education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Doris Ash include University of California.
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Papers
Dialogic inquiry in life science conversations of family groups in a museum
TL;DR: This paper analyzed family conversations at museums and other informal settings and found that children and adults offer different interest areas or expertise for dialogic negotiation and that family members use inquiry skills in dialogue to explore matters of importance.
Reflective scientific sense‐making dialogue in two languages: The science in the dialogue and the dialogue in the science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the transition from everyday to scientific ways of reasoning, and on the intertwined roles of meaning-making dialogue and science content as they contribute to scientific literacy.
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Working within the Zone of Proximal Development: Formative Assessment as Professional Development
Doris Ash,Karen E. Levitt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Zone of Proximal Development: Formative Assessment as Professional Development (ZPMDP) was discussed. But the focus was not on the evaluation of the teacher.
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Thematic Continuities: Talking and Thinking about Adaptation in a Socially Complex Classroom.
TL;DR: This paper used sociocultural views of learning and teaching to describe how fifth-sixth-grade students in a Fostering a Community of Learners (FCL) classroom gradually adopted scientific ideas and language in a socially complex classroom.
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Changing Practices, Changing Identities as Museum Educators
Doris Ash,Judith Lombana,Lucía Alcalá +2 more
- 01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The authors describe how research findings on a scaffolding-focused, reflection-oriented community of practice transformed museum educators' identities as educators, and describe the theory, the multiple methodologies drawing on that theory, and the layered analysis that accompanied this research.
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