Reflective scientific sense-making dialogue in two languages: The science in the dialogue and the dialogue in the science

In this paper I 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. I refer to views of science, and how scientific understanding is advanced dialogically, by Hurd (Science Education, 1998, 82 , 402–416), Brown (The Journal of Learning Sciences, 1992, 2 (2), 141–178), Bruner (Acts of Meaning, Cambridge, MA:...