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TITLE: RETHINKING
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING EDITORS: Richard Joiner, Karen Littleton, Dorothy Faulkner, Dorothy Miell ISBN pb: 1 85343 514 7 ISBN hb: 1 85343 513 9 PAGES: 256 LIST PRICE pb: £16.95 ($25.00) LIST PRICE hb: £40.00 ($55.00) PUB DATE: September 2000
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| DESCRIPTION: In recent years new
translations and interpretations of the work of Vygotsky have generated
considerable research activity by developmental psychologists and educational
researchers on the relationship between the social and cognitive dimensions
of learning. Rethinking Collaborative Learning aims to bring together,
for the fist 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 book critically examines the ways in which psychologists and educational researchers conceptualise the nature and quality of collaborative activity and examines the different contexts in which such activity is studied. ABOUT THE EDITORS: Richard Joiner is Research Fellow in the School of education at the Open University. Karen Littleton is Lecturer in the Psychology Department at the Open University. Dorothy Faulkner is Senior Lecturer with the Department of Education at the Open University. Dorothy Miell is Senior Lecturer with the Psychology Department at the Open University. |
