Prof. Kenneth Ruthven gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series The Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education (epiSTEMe) project designed and trialled a research-informed intervention which sought to incorporate a dialogic component within the teaching of early-secondary science and mathematics. This talk discusses the design and trialling of the intervention, particularly the crafting of a dialogic approach, and reports findings from a large-scale evaluation of the intervention.

From Multiversity to Postmodern University

Public seminars from the Department of Education. 
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