Barb Smith
OISE/U. of Toronto
On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Keith R Sawyer wrote:
> You may want to contact Margarita Azmitia, here at UC Santa Cruz. She
> gave a presentation yesterday on a study she did of expert-novice
> collaboration among same-age peeres. She found that the expert children
> viewed their expert role as a source of power, and never relinquished the
> control of that role; thus, the novice was not allowed to become a more
> central participant. She found this to be the case even when she
> "secretly" trained the novices in advance so that they were as skilled as
> the expert, but without the expert's knowledge.
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> Keith Sawyer
> Department of Psychology
> University of California, Santa Cruz
> Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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