Towards a Pedagogy of Educational Discussions

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Robert J. Beck, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor of Education
Lawrence University

Towards a Pedagogy of Educational Discussions

Publications

R. J. Beck, & D. Wood (1993). The dialogic socialization of aggression in a family's court of reason and inquiry. Discourse Processes, 16(3), 341-362.
R. J. Beck, & K. A. Clarke-Stewart (1998). Improving 5 year-old children’s narrative recall and comprehension. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 19(4), 543-569.
K. A. Clarke-Stewart, & R. J. Beck (1999). Maternal scaffolding and children’s narrative retelling of a movie story. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(3), 409-434.
Robert. J. Beck (2002). Moral Scripts and Dialogic Inquiry in Maternal Scaffolding of Young Children’s Cultural Understanding of a Movie Story. Symposium on Fostering Narrative Competency. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1, 2002.
Robert J. Beck, & Sharon L. Bear (2003a). Children’s Narrative Theories of Characters’ Emotions in a Movie Story. Symposium on Fostering Narrative Competency, International Reading Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 2003a.
R. J. Beck, W. Fitzgerald, & B. Pauksztat (2003b). Individual behaviors and social structure in the development of communication networks of self-organizing online discussion groups. In B. Wasson, S. Ludvigson, & U. Hoppe (Eds.). Designing for change in networked learning environments (pp. 313-322). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
R. J. Beck, N. L. Livne, & S. L. Bear (2005). Teachers’ self-assessments of the effects of formative and summative electronic portfolios. European Journal of Teacher Education, 28(3), 221-244.
J. P. Boyd, W. Fitzgerald, & R. J. Beck (2006). Computing core-periphery structures and permutation tests for social relations data. Social Networks, 28, 165-178.
Robert J. Beck (2007). Towards a pedagogy of the Oxford tutorial. Conference on the Oxford tutorial, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, March 31, 2007.
Robert J. Beck (2007). The Oxford Tutorial System: a Learning Theory, Oxford Magazine, Eighth Week, Trinity Term, 13-17.
Robert J. Beck (2009). The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Liberal Arts College Discussions.
Robert J. Beck (2011). A study of sustainable assessment theory in higher education tutorials. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011, 1-23.