Hi Mike and everyone else:
I posted two of the articles (penultimate versions so not to infringe
on any copyright laws), to be regarded as companion pieces. They deal
with the link between individual and community, looking at the
relationship between learning at both levels, which is mediated in
this classrooms by face-to-face interactions interactions in
activities that they have framed themselves--at all but the top level
(see the papers themselves). The URL starting page from which you can
get to the html versions of the following to papers is:
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/MCA/
Cheers, Michael
Roth, W.-M. (1996). Knowledge diffusion* in a grade 4-5 classroom
during a unit on civil engineering: An analysis of a classroom
community in terms of its changing resources and practices. Cognition
and Instruction, 14, 179-220.
Roth, W.-M. (1995). Inventors, copycats, and everyone else: The
emergence of shared (arti)facts and concepts as defining aspects of
classroom communities. Science Education, 79, 475-502.
>Michael-- Perhaps you have a draft of one of the papers you point us
>toward, or a web-baseable version of one, that would allow those who
>do not otherwise have access to your examples to get access? Our
>collective experience (! :-) ) suggests that more or less simultaneous
>joint attention enhances the quality of subsequent discussion.
>
>We would be glad to post on XMCA webpage or your could post on a web
>page and send us all the url. (Which is not to say that those who CAN
>get access to papers and book that Michael refs shouldn't hurry up
>and do so..... next year.
>(Which has already arrived in parts of xmcaland)
>mike
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