Research examining students’ historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students’ written work to make claims about students’ ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing student…
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The Supreme Court of the United States often finds itself at the center of political controversies due to the increased judicialization of value and policy matters. These controversies threaten the Court’s authority. This dissertation examines the argument strategies that the Co…
During the middle grades, children typically first encounter discipline-specific instruction delegated to specialist teachers, and teachers incorporate “close reading” of increasingly complex texts to achieve the goal of preparing students for what they will encounter in seconda…
Abbasid society in ninth-century Iraq faced the challenge of reconciling the role of its many non-Muslim citizens with Islamic norms and governance, as seen in ¿The Refutation of Christians¿ by al-Jahiz (d. 868/869 [255 A.H.]). Al-Jahiz moved in circles only one step removed fro…
This thesis puts forward a strong argument for why more up-to-date interactional research is needed into disputes and why disciplines, methodological approaches and theories should come second to the phenomenon. This thesis investigates how people behave in disputes. Disputes ar…
I argue in this dissertation that our North American educational institutions are obligated to formally attend to the inherent pervasiveness and complexities of rhetoric in preparing students to be fully-participating members of democratic society. The definition of rhetoric rel…
This dissertation is an analysis of the development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history. The central concerns of the thesis are; treatises on the theoretical understanding of the concept of dialectic and argumentation theory, and …
In an effort to provide more weight to the particle nature of light, a lesson sequence was developed that reflected the Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) Performance Expectation (PE) HS-PS4-3, which has students evaluating the claim, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea…
The dialectical method refers to the scholarly investigation of a subject through argumentation between two opponents. In the early centuries of Islam, dialectics constituted the method in the disciplines of theology, law and linguistics until its validity was challenged by the …
Recent research into the Apocalypse of John has made it clear that John did not primarily write the Apocalypse in order to provide a detailed time-table of events that would unfold thousands of years in the future. Instead, John wrote to affect and move his hearers at the end of…
This study examined low and high level teachers' questioning patterns and classroom implementations within an argument-based inquiry approach known as the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach, which addresses issues on negotiation, argumentation, learning, and teaching. The …
This study investigated how students use knowledge and strategies from their out-of-school environments to construct knowledge and solve problems during scientific experimentation. In addition this study aimed to develop a methodology for understanding students' reasoning proces…
Argumentation is a key practice in many disciplines and, as such, is emphasized as an important skill in K-12 education. Despite its relevance to all content areas, little is known about how the same students engage in argumentation in different contexts. Furthermore, there is l…