Collaborative story telling in friendship and acquaintanceship dyads

The book brings together contributions from researchers, working across Europe and North America, who have interests in collaborative learning. The work presented here is united through the contributors’ shared desire to understand and promote educationally productive collaborative work, whilst investigating this in diverse ways, for example with respect to the particular contexts, learning communities and the age of the learners being studied…from Introduction Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction (Karen Littleton and Dorothy Miell); Chapter 2. Collaborative Story Telling in Friendship and Acquaintanceship Dyads (Dorothy Faulkner and Dorothy Miell); Chapter 3. Reading Together: Computers and Collaboration (Karen Littleton, Clare Wood and Pav Chera); Chapter 4. Peer Collaboration and Individual Learning: Incubation, Contradiction and Collective Insight (Christine Howe, Donna McWilliam and Gillian Cross); Chapter 5. “You can see it as you wish!” Negotiating a Shared Understanding in Collaborative Problem Solving Dyads (Kristiina Kumpulainen, Sinikka Kaartinen); Chapter 6. Developing the Capacity to Collaborate (Lyn Dawes and Claire Sams); Chapter 7. Explanations and Modes of Collaboration in Tutor-Tutee Interactions at School (Karin Bachmann and Michele Grossen); Chapter 8. Musical Collaborations (Raymond MacDonald and Dorothy Miell); Chapter 9. Conflict as a Challenge to Productive Learning during Long-Term Collaboration (Jaana Lahti, Anneli Etelapelto and Sanni Siitari); Chapter 10. Prerequisites for CSCL: Research Approaches, Methodological Challenges and Pedagogical Development (Paivi Hakkinen, Maarit Arvaja and Kati Makitalo); Chapter 11. Undergraduate Students’ use of Course Related Web-Conferences (Sarah Brown, Nigel Wilson and Clare Wood); Chapter 12. Learning Communities, Communities of Practice: Principles, Technologies, and Examples (Curtis Bonk, Robert Wisher and Maria Luisa Nigrelli); Index.