Ensuring all students have opportunities to engage in scientific argumentation is a key goal for K-12 students. While research has shown that teachers' beliefs about argumentation can impact their classroom instruction and that students in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools are less likely to experience challenging science learning, there is…

Explores the coping strategies families employ in response to stress. Shows how these strategies are related to enduring structures of beliefs, convictions, and assumptions the family holds about its social world. Kuhn's concept of paradigm is used to help one understand how shared beliefs shape family action. (Author)