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Christine Howe

Professor

Cambridge University

Cambridge, Reino Unido

Líneas de Investigación


My research addresses children's reasoning in mathematics and science; small-group and whole-class dialogue; children's linguistic, communicative and social skills.

Educación

  •  Education, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Reino Unido, 1975
  •  Social Psychology, Sussex University. Reino Unido, 1970

Experiencia Académica

  •   Professor Part Time

    University of Cambridge

    The Faculty of Education

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2006 - A la fecha

  •   Supervisor in Social and Political Sciences Part Time

    Cambridge University

    Cambridge , Reino Unido

    1970 - 1974

  •   Temporary Lecturer Part Time

    Sussex University

    Brighton, Reino Unido

    1974 - 1976

  •   Lecturer in Psychology Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde , Chile

    1976 - 1976

  •   Senior Lecturer in Psychology Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde , Reino Unido

    1990 - 1995

  •   Reader in Psychology Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde, Reino Unido

    1995 - 1998

  •   Head of Psychology Department Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde , Reino Unido

    1997 - 2002

  •   Professor of Psychology, Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde, Reino Unido

    1998 - 2006

  •   Vice-Dean (Research) Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Faculty of Law, Arts & Social Sciences

    Strathclyde , Reino Unido

    2002 - 2005

  •   Director of Research Part Time

    University of Cambridge

    University of Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2009 - 2010

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Professor Part Time

    University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2006 - A la fecha

  •   Consultant to PROJECT SUMUME Part Time

    Project SUMUME

    Neuchâtel, Suiza

    2000 - 2000

  •   Manager of LTSN/HEA Psychology Partner Site Part Time

    Strathclyde University

    Strathclyde , Reino Unido

    2000 - 2006

  •   External Assessor Part Time

    University of Paisley: Psychology Subject Health Review

    Hamilton, Reino Unido

    2003 - 2003

  •   Assessor for Psychology Part Time

    TQA

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    1996 - 1998

  •   Postgraduate Training Board Part Time

    ESRC

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    1997 - 2001

  •   Member of ESRC Training and Development Board, Part Time

    ESRC

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2004 - 2008

  •   External Assessor of Professorial Appointments in Psychology or Education Part Time

    Dundee University, Hong Kong University, London University Institute of Education, Nottingham Trent University, Oxford Brookes University, University of East Anglia, York University

    Cambridge, Reino Unido

    2004 - 2013

  •   External Assessor of Tenure/Promotion Application Part Time

    Virginia Tech College of Science & Cardill University

    Blacksburg & Gales, Estados Unidos

    2009 - 2012


 

Article (75)

Principled Improvement in Science: Forces and proportional relations in early secondary-school teaching
Argumentation in whole-class teaching and science learning
Children's conceptions of physical events: Explicit and tacit understanding of horizontal motion
Optimizing small group dialogue in classrooms: Effective practices and theoretical constraints.
Racism, identity and psychological well-being: a longitudinal perspective on politically embattled relations
Science Teaching and Argumentation: One-sided versus dialectical argumentation in Chilean middle-school science lessons
Classroom dialogue: a systematic review across four decades of research
Dialogue and self-regulation in the primary classroom: Concluding comments
Scaffolding in context: Peer interaction and abstract learning
Supporting Conceptual Change in School Science: A possible role for tacit understanding
The Development of Children’s Understanding of Speed Change: A Contributing Factor Towards Commonsense Theories of Motion
Towards a Complete Commonsense Theory of Motion: The interaction of dimensions in children's predictions of natural object motion
Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and group proportion in school context
Everyday conceptions of object fall: Explicit and tacit understanding during middle childhood
Explaining the dialogic processes of teaching and learning: The value and potential of sociocultural theory
Exploring the characteristics of small groups within science and English secondary classrooms
Liberal Studies in Hong Kong: A new perspective on critical thinking through group work
Neuroscience and knowledge acquisition in curriculum contexts: Modelling conceptual development in school science
Understanding the beliefs informing children’s commonsense theories of motion: the role of everyday object variables in dynamic event predictions
Discourse topic management and discussion skills in middle childhood: The effects of age and task
RATIONAL NUMBER AND PROPORTIONAL REASONING: USING INTENSIVE QUANTITIES TO PROMOTE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
Intensive quantities: Towards their recognition at primary school level
Intensive quantities: Why they matter to developmental research
Psychosocial mediators and moderators of the effect of peer-victimization upon depressive symptomatology
Social effects of collaborative learning in primary schools
Collaborative group work in middle childhood: Joint construction, unresolved contradiction, and the growth of knowledge
Supporting group work in Scottish primary classrooms: improving the quality of collaborative dialogue
Effects of continuing professional development on group work practices in Scottish primary schools
Effects of group work training on science attainment in rural and urban schools
Rudolph Schaffer (19262008)
Group work in elementary science: Towards organisational principles for supporting pupil learning
Opposition in social interaction between children: why intellectual benefits do not mean social costs.
Chance favours only the prepared mind: Incubation and the delayed effects of peer collaboration
Higher Still Programme in Psychology: implications of school and college provision for Higher Education
Perceived Discrimination Among Ethnic Minority Young People: The Role of Psychological Variables1
All together now
Enhancing Pre-schoolers' Reasoning Skills: An Intervention to Optimise the Use of Justificatory Speech Acts During Peer Interaction
Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress: The Role of Personal and Ethnic Self-Esteem.
Social interaction and cognitive growth: An examination through the role-taking skills of deaf and hearing children
Group work in primary school science: discussion, consensus and guidance from experts
Parental Participation and Partnership in Pre-school Provision Participation et partenariat parental dans les prestations pre´scolaires Participación y Asociación de Los Padres en la Provisión de la Enseñanza Preescolar
The countering of overgeneralization
Peer Argument in Educational Settings
Pre-school education: parents’ preferences, knowledge and expectations.
Computer support for peer-based methodology tutorials
Hypothesis testing in science: group consensus and the acquisition of conceptual and procedural knowledge
Peer interaction in the teaching of mathematics: explanation and the co-ordination of knowledge
Experimental appraisal of personal beliefs in science: Constraints on performance in the 9 to 14 age group
Computer support for learning in collaborative contexts: prompted hypothesis testing in physics
Psychology teaching in the twenty first century: the role of technology in Higher Education.
Genere e dialogo nel lavoro scientifico di gruppo.
Peer Collaboration and Conceptual Growth in Physics: Task Influences on Children's Understanding of Heating and Cooling
Task design, dialogue and learning
Verbal, vocal and visual information in the identification of warm and hostile attitudes
Gender and Dialogue in Secondary School Physics
Peer interaction and knowledge acquisition: introduction to the special issue.
Piagetian theory and primary school physics: A rapprochement with possible relevance to special needs education
Task design as an influence on dialogue and learning: primary school group work with object flotation
Conceptual knowledge in physics: The role of group interaction in computer-supported teaching
Social construction and individual development: A reply to doise and Mugny’s rejoinder
The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children: Group interaction and the understanding of motion down an incline
Explanatory concepts in physics: Towards a principled evaluation of teaching materials
Information Technology and group work in physics
Effects of cognitive conflict, socio-cognitive conflict and imitation on children's socio-legal thinking
Grouping children for effective learning in science.
Physics in the Primary School: Peer Interaction and the Understanding of Floating and Sinking
Visual primacy in social attitude judgement: A qualification
Concepts and methods in the study of conversation: a reply to Lynda Olsen-Fulero
The conversational factor in language acquisition
Case grammar and stage I speech: some evidence against
Interpretive analysis and role semantics a ten-year mésalliance?
Learning Language from Mothers' Replies
Semantic elaboration and structural growth.
P. M. Greenfield and J. H. Smith The structure of communication in early language development. New York: Academic Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 238.
The meanings of two-word utterances in the speech of young children

BookSection (18)

Peer dialogue and cognitive development: A two-way relationship?
Expert support for group-work in elementary science: the role of consensus
Peer collaboration and individual learning: incubation, contradiction and collective insight
Co-ordinating support for conceptual and procedural learning in science.
What do parents really want from pre-school education?
Conceptual understanding and investigative skills: can group-based practical work serve them both
Productive interaction in the context of computer-supported collaborative science
The psycho-educational basis of peer assisted learning
Interaction and mental models of physics phenomena: evidence from dialogue between learners
Piagetian theory and primary school physics.
The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children
Collaborative learning in physics: some implications for computer design.
Group work in physics: towards an inclusive curriculum.
Learning about physics through peer interaction.
Computer-directed group activity and the development of children's hypothesis testing skills.
Task design: A neglected variable in the study of group work.
Mental models of motion.
Mother-child conversation and semantic development.

BookWhole (9)

Educational dialogues: Understanding and promoting productive interaction.
Peer groups and children’s development.
The PLAT 2004 Special Issue
Conceptual structure in childhood and adolescence: the case of everyday physics.
Gender and classroom interaction: a research review.
Language: A special case for developmental psychology?
Peer interaction and knowledge acquisition. Edited Special Issue of Social Development.
). Group and interactive learning.
Acquiring language in a conversational context

Proyecto (27)

, Resolution of differences during collaborative groupwork: a pilot study with undergraduates.
Effecting principled improvement in STEM education: Student engagement and learning in early secondary-school physical science and mathematics.
Primary school children’s tacit and explicit understanding of object motion.
Bullying, ethnic identity, coping and adjustment among minority ethnic pupils.
Peer collaboration and conceptual understanding: contradiction, co-construction and the mechanisms of growth.
Mathematics in Scotland: the relevance of intensive quantities.
Supporting group work in Scottish schools: age and the urban/rural divide.
A longitudinal investigation of the experiences and expectations of racism and discrimination in young people from majority and minority cultures.
Group work and conceptual change in science: clarification of delayed effects
Disputes in 4-7 year old children: complexity of dialogue as a function of age, culture and social adjustment.
The impact of primary science teaching practice on pupil learning.
Quality in pre-school education provision: the role of the parents.
Bridging the academic/vocational divide by integrating critical thinking
Bridging the Piaget-Vygotsky gap: conceptual and procedural knowledge in science group work
Conceptual gain and successful problem solving in primary school mathematics
Social interaction in primary and secondary classrooms: the gender dimension.
Peer-based methodology tutorials in psychology.
The structuring of post-verb argument structure by children learning English.
Centre for Research into Interactive Learning.
Children's understanding in physics.
Conceptual development in primary school science: the design of group tasks.
Developing a pedagogy for meta-cognition and self-regulation in education.
Language and context in primary school mathematics
Science in the primary school: the role of peer interaction
The development of hypothesis testing in children aged 9 to 14.
The effects of peer interaction on children's understanding of health.
The nature of constructive interaction: dialogues in group problem solving
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Christine Howe

Professor

Cambridge University

Cambridge, Reino Unido

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PROFESORA TITULAR

PSICOLOGIA EDUCACIONAL

FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGIA UNIVERSIDAD ALBERTO HURTADO

SANTIAGO, Chile