Hi Gordon,
What you wrote, following, interests me greatly:
>“community of learners”. In our collaborative action research group,
>however, we have taken a somewhat different approach, which we recognize,
>post-hoc, to most closely resemble the Engestrom model. As teachers, we
>have focused on the ‘object’ of our activity, seeing this not as learning,
>but as making and improving artifacts of various kinds. Sometimes these
>artifacts are material objects - models such as elastic-powered vehicles
>that embody functions that need to be understood in order for them to be
>constructed so that they ‘work’. In other cases they are solutions to
Am I mistaken in writing that others have called this collaborative inquiry? I'd like to learn more of what you are doing in this area -- for example, are you working with teachers who are within the same school system? What publications from your group should i pay most attention to?
Thanks,
Bill
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