Defining and Operationalizing Appropriation for Science Learning

Olivia Levrini; Paola Fantini; Giulia Tasquier; Barbara Pecori; Mariana Levin

Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 24, No. 1 (2015) pp. 93–136

The goal of this article is to contribute to understanding the interplay between students' disciplinary engagement and their identity construction. The term appropriation, borrowed from scholars in linguistics and education, was chosen to...