Rethinking Collaborative Learning

In recent years new translations and interpretations of the work of Vygotsky have generated considerable research activity by developmental paychologists and educational researchers on the relationship between the social and cognitive dimensions of learning. Collaborative Learning aims to bring together, for the fiirst time in a single volume, up-to-date and comprehensive research on collaborative learning and learning to collaborate from leading international workers in the field. The contributions converge around the questions of when and how peer interaction can facilitate understanding and learning, how we conceptualise the nature and quality of collaborative activity, how productive collaborative activity can be supported, and how children learn to collaborate. The authors critically examine the ways in which psychologists and educational researchers conceptualise the nature and quality of collaborative activity and examine the different contexts in which such activity is studied.

Preface

vii

Part I Development

Collaborative Learning: An Underlying Skills Approach

3

(16)

Sharon Ding

Emma Flynn

Is Collaborative Learning Influenced by Children's Representations?

19

(18)

David J. Messer

Karen J. Pine

Part II Mediation

Peer Interaction and the Effect of Task Presentation on the Acquisition of Scientific Reasoning

37

(15)

Richard Joiner

Dorothy Faulkner

Karen Littleton

Dorothy Miell

Linda Thompson

Children's Collaborative Music Composition: Communication through Music

52

(13)

Louise Morgan

David Hargreaves

Richard Joiner

Musical Conversations: Collaborating with a Friend on Creative Tasks

65

(16)

Raymond MacDonald

Dorothy Miell

Part III Adult Support and Guidance

Co-ordinating Support for Conceptual and Procedural Learning in Science

81

(20)

Christine Howe

Val Duchak-Tanner

Andy Tolmie

The Role of Adult Guidance and Peer Collaboration in Child Pedestrian Training

101

(18)

Andrew Tolmie

James Thomson

Hugh Foot

Applying a Dialogical Model of Reason in the Classroom

119

(20)

Rupert Wegerif

Part IV Identity, Motivation and Affect

Gender Identities and the Process of Negotiation in Social Interaction

139

(22)

Patricia Murphy

Motivation and the Ecology of Collaborative Learning

161

(18)

Charles Crook

Taking Time Out from Collaboration: Opportunities for Synthesis and Emotion Regulation

179

(20)

Margarita Azmitia

Part V Making Space for Collaborative Learning

Up for Debate: CMC as a Support for Collaborative Learning in a Campus University Setting

199

(16)

Vivienne Light

Paul Light

Emma Nesbitt

Stevan Harnad

Technological Mediation of Synchronous Collaboration: Science and Statistics in SharedARK and KANSAS

215

(14)

Eileen Scanlon

Tim O'Shea

Randall B. Smith

Richard Joiner

Collaborating and Learning in a Project of Regional Development Supported by New Information and Communication Technologies

229

(19)

Pascale Marro Clement

Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Rethinking Collaborative Learning: An Overview

248

(11)

Karen Littleton

Index

259

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