Learning to Talk the Educational Psychology Talk through a Problem-Based Course

Ellina Chernobilsky; Maria Carolina DaCosta; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 32, No. 4 (July 2004) pp. 319–356

A sociocultural view of learning proposes that learning involves becoming enculturated into a community of practice. A step along the way is learning to use the specialized language of such a community, as language is a crucial tool that regulates...