Negotiations of Thematic Conversations About Biology

This chapter is one of many studies in this text “that puts conversation…at the core of museum learning” (Leinhardt & Crowley, 1998, p. 1). My theoretical framework fits well with the organizing principles of the Museum Learning Collaborative, as it relies on the work of Vygotsky (1978), Wertsch (1998), and Wells (1999) as underpinnings for a sociocultural perspective of learning in informal environments.