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Capturing deliberative argument: An analytic coding scheme for studying argumentative dialogue and its benefits for learning
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Mark Felton, Amanda Crowell, Merce Garcia-Mila, Constanza VillarroelAbstractDeliberative argument refers to a collaborative argumentative exchange in which speakers hold incompatible views and seek to resolve these differences to arrive at a consensual decision. Studies have shown that some of the features of deliberative argument emerge under conditions where the goals of argument are structured to promote consensus-seeking, rather than competition. In a series of studies we have shown that deliberative argument is...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - October 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Walton's types of argumentation dialogues as classroom discourse sequences
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Chrysi Rapanta, Andri ChristodoulouAbstractDialogic argumentation has thus far been proposed as a way to analyse, understand, and promote meaningful classroom interactions. However, currently there is a lack of systematic proposals for conceptualising argumentation dialogue goals as part of teachers' pedagogical repertoire. Our main goal is to operationalise an existing framework of argumentation dialogue types, the one proposed by argumentation theorist Douglas Walton. To do so, we first identify a set of epistemic...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - October 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Enhancing proactive safety management in schools using the change workshop method
This study aims to raise awareness of OSH challenges, and to support the development of proactive safety management practices. We approach OSH management from two perspectives, namely the risk-based and resilience perspectives, and address the importance of both in the complex work environments that schools have become. The empirical case of this study is an Activity Theory-based Change Workshop (CW) process in an education department in a Finnish city organisation. We show how the CW process enhanced collective learning, how a collective view of changing OSH challenges developed during the CW process, and how participants...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The concept of “recontextualization”: implications for professional, vocational and workplace learning
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): David GuileAbstractThe paper argues that writers from a variety of socio-cultural and -cognitive perspectives have sought in a number of ways to close the assumed longstanding gap between theory and practice in Professional, Vocational and Workplace Learning (PVWL). In contrast, the paper adopts a different stance: it seeks to dissolve that gap, in other words, show it is only a feature of extant theorisation rather than an a priori given. To do so, the paper extends and elaborates the concept of “recontextualisation”, ...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multi-theoretic research involving classroom video analysis: A focus on the unit of analysis
Publication date: Available online 8 September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social InteractionAuthor(s): Man Ching Esther Chan, David ClarkeAbstractConsiderations regarding the unit of analysis in learning research can serve an important dialogic function between investigations informed by different research traditions. This paper discusses the issues arising from consideration of the unit of analysis in multi-theoretic research designs and illustrates these issues with examples drawn from the Social Unit of Learning project. Several analytical approaches were considered, including: coding using a fixed, common transc...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Lived experience as a unit of analysis for the study of learning
We present two second-person methods for collecting data: explicitation and self-confrontation interviews. Two case studies illustrate the implementation of these methods: the first focuses on sensorial experience in swimming lessons, and the second concerns understanding in teacher training.Endorsing lived experience as a unit of analysis allows thinking anew the consideration of the individual into socio-cultural approaches of learning. (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The interactional management of learner initiatives in social studies classroom discourse
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): Nergiz Kardaş İşler, Ufuk Balaman, Ali Ekber ŞahinAbstractSocial studies courses are primary school level modules that draw on a diverse set of transdisciplinary subjects such as democracy, citizenship, history, human rights, ethics, religion, and culture to facilitate the development of students' socio-cultural knowledge. In line with the course objectives, teachers are expected to create an atmosphere of active student participation and build on learner contributions in order to ensure an extensive topic coverage thro...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Teachers' perceived professional development in a multi-regional community of practice: Effects of beliefs and engagement
This study investigated how teachers' beliefs (i.e., beliefs about teaching thinking, acceptance of the community of practice, and acceptance of the school culture) and engagement (i.e., engagement in learning and engagement in practice on teaching thinking) affected their perceived professional development in the Alliance of Thinking Schools (ATS), which is a multi-regional community of practice (CoP) on teaching thinking for K-12 teachers in China. A total of 478 teachers from 39 schools in 10 cities participated in this study. The regression analysis results indicated that teachers' beliefs about teaching thinking, foll...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Children's representation of self in social media communities
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): Marina Wernholm, Linda Reneland-ForsmanAbstractThis is a study of how children represent themselves when performing participatory identities in social media communities with relevance to constructing a learning self. Data was generated by filming eight children (6–11 years of age) talking about and showing their multimodal self-representations. On their out-of-school learning journeys, the children came into presences as ‘a someone’, in social media communities. The theoretical foundation informing the study is Weng...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Discourse acquisition in peer talk – The case of argumentation among kindergartners
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): Birte ArendtAbstractIn addition to adults, peers too act as crucial instances of discourse/language socialization. Due to the fact that the ways of learning differ greatly, peers learn from peers in a special way. In the study at hand we claim that within argumentation among kindergartners peers offer each other multiple learning opportunities and establish several requirements to improve discursive competencies. Discourse acquisition in this sense can be conceptualized as a longitudinally observable side effect of habitual...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Teacher agency in professional development programmes – A case study of professional development material and collegial discussion
This article offers insight into teacher agency in professional development programmes, focusing on a national policy initiative in Sweden aiming to provide in-depth professional development for mathematics teachers. Data was produced from video observations from two collegial discussions with one group of teachers, during the professional development programme. We closely analyse forms of agency in the collegial discussions in relation to the affordances of the professional development materials. The analysis shows a complex relationship between possibilities for independent judgement as constructed in curriculum material...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

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Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction)
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Socially responsive classrooms for students with special educational needs and disabilities
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): Christoforos Mamas, Alan J. Daly, Giovanna Hartmann SchaelliAbstractThis mixed-methods study examined the social networks of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to understand how the degree of a socially responsive classroom may have an impact on the inclusion and participation of these students and their peers. A critical case study design grounded in social capital theory drove the study. Data were collected from two Grade 4 classrooms, where 41 students participated in the social network quest...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Research techniques and methodologies to assess social learning in participatory environmental governance
Publication date: December 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 23Author(s): Anna ErnstAbstractThe impact of participation on transformation towards sustainability is insufficiently researched, particularly with regard to social learning as an outcome of participation processes. The investigation of social learning processes within participatory decision-making is challenging, and capturing all aspects in one research design does not seem possible. The systematic review undertaken in this paper found that qualitative methods and self-reporting techniques are commonly applied to measure social learni...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sociomateriality as a partner in the polyphony of students positioning
Publication date: September 2019Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): Elisa Cattaruzza, M. Beatrice Ligorio, Antonio IannacconeAbstractIn this article, an innovative academic course, inspired by the Bakhtinian perspective and positioning theory, is presented and discussed. Within this dialogic framework, we argue that the sociomateriality of the setting cannot be considered as a separate voice because it influences the polyphony of the students' intricate positioning processes. The research context was a semester-long course on “Materiality in contexts” attended by 26 university students...
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - August 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research