Chapter 1 Introduction: Explaining Instructional Explanations

Chapter 2 What Kind of Explanation is a Model?

Chapter 3 Learning, Identity, and Instructional Explanations

Chapter 4 Learning Chemistry: What, When, and How?

Chapter 5 Negotiating the Goal of Museum Inquiry: How Families Engineer and Experiment

Chapter 6 A Framing of Instructional Explanations: Let Us Explain With You

Chapter 7 How and Why Do Teachers Explain Things the Way They Do?

Chapter 8 The Explanatory Power of Examples in Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching

Chapter 9 Using Designed Instructional Activities to Enable Novices to Manage Ambitious Mathematics Teaching

Chapter 10 Learning History and Learning Language: Focusing on Language in Historical Explanations to Support English Language Learners

Chapter 11 Instructional Explanations in a Legal Classroom: Are Students’ Argument Diagrams of Hypothetical Reasoning Diagnostic?

Chapter 12 Connecting with Art: How Families Talk About Art in a Museum Setting

Chapter 13 Developing Writing Skills Through Students Giving Instructional Explanations