1st Edition

Affective Learning Together Social and emotional dimensions of collaborative learning

Edited By Michael Baker, Jerry Andriessen, Sanna Järvelä Copyright 2013
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings. People are increasingly linked by networks that are not only means for working and learning together, but are also ways of maintaining social and emotional support. Collaborating with others requires not only elaborating... Read more

1. Introduction: visions of learning together; 2. Varieties of "togetherness" in learning – and their mediation; 3. Emotions: characteristics, emergence and circulation in interactional learning; 4. Feeling and Meaning in the Social Ecology of Learning: Lessons from Play and Games; 5. Knowledge co-construction – epistemic consensus or relational assent?; 6. Paper and computers: gender differences in children’s conversations in collaborative activities; 7. Motivation and Emotion Shaping Knowledge Co-Construction; 8. Regulating emotions together for motivated collaboration; 9. Identifying and overcoming tension in interdisciplinary teamwork in professional development; 10. Getting on and getting along: tension in the development of collaboration; 11. A sociocultural perspective on conflict in argumentative designs; 12. Epistemic and interpersonal dimensions of peer argumentation: Conceptualization and quantitative assessment; 13. "Look who’s talking": Identity and emotions as resources to historical peer reasoning

Biography

Michael Baker is a CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Research Director, working in the Economic and Social Sciences Department of Télécom ParisTech Graduate Engineering School in Paris, France.

Jerry Andriessen is a former Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and now works as an independent researcher (http://www.wisenmunro.org).

Sanna Järvelä is a Professor in the field of learning and educational technology in the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland.