Abstract This paper draws on data from a mixed method action research study investigating whether Mantle of the Expert supported or constrained science learning in a year 7/8 class. The 29 students (positioned as expert scientists) learned about buoyancy and stability through reinvestigating the sinking of the ferry Wahine in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand on 10 April 1968. The focus of this paper, however, is Heathcote’s notion of ‘others’. It examines how the role of the client as an external audience to the students’ work was extended by offering fictional others as an internal audience. The study highlights the value of interacting in an ethical manner with multiple fictional others of differing statuses and competency. I will suggest using both competent and incompetent fictional others intensifies the learning, and expands the possible by providing students with an incentive to work and to develop their curricular understanding.

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虚构的其他人：通过与虚构的人互动来扩大可能性

摘要本文采用混合方法行动研究的数据，调查专家的Mantle是否支持或限制7/8年级的科学学习。这29名学生（被定位为专家科学家）通过重新调查1968年4月10日在新西兰惠灵顿海港的Wahine渡轮沉没而了解了浮力和稳定性。但是，本文的重点是希思考特的“其他”概念。它研究了如何通过将虚构的其他人作为内部受众来扩展客户作为学生工作的外部受众的角色。该研究突出了以道德的方式与地位和能力不同的虚构人物进行互动的价值。我建议同时使用有能力和无能力的虚构的人来加强学习，