dc.contributor.author | Pifarré, Manoli | |
dc.contributor.author | Kleine Staarman, Judith | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-04T14:24:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores how wikis may be used to support primary education
students’ collaborative interaction and how such an interaction process can be characterised.
The overall aim of this study is to analyse the collaborative processes of students
working together in a wiki environment, in order to see how primary students can actively
create a shared context for learning in the wiki. Educational literature has already reported
that wikis may support collaborative knowledge-construction processes, but in our study we
claim that a dialogic perspective is needed to accomplish this. Students must develop an
intersubjective orientation towards each others’ perspectives, to co-construct knowledge
about a topic. For this purpose, our project utilised a ‘Thinking Together’ approach to help
students develop an intersubjective orientation towards one another and to support the
creation of a ‘dialogic space’ to co-construct new understanding in a wiki science project.
The students’ asynchronous interaction process in a primary classroom—which led to the
creation of a science text in the wiki—was analysed and characterised, using a dialogic
approach to the study of CSCL practices. Our results illustrate how the Thinking
Together approach became embedded within the wiki environment and in the students’
collaborative processes. We argue that a dialogic approach for examining interaction
can be used to help design more effective pedagogic approaches related to the use of
wikis in education and to equip learners with the competences they need to participate
in the global knowledge-construction era. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 187 - 205 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11412-011-9116-x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9837 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://link.springer.com/journal/11412 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dialogic teaching | en_GB |
dc.subject | Collaboration | en_GB |
dc.subject | Collective thinking | en_GB |
dc.subject | Primary education | en_GB |
dc.subject | Wiki | en_GB |
dc.title | Wiki-Supported collaborative learning in Primary Education: Analysis of how a “dialogic space” is created for thinking together | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-04T14:24:45Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1556-1607 | |
dc.description | publication-status: Published | en_GB |
dc.description | types: Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1556-1615 | |
dc.identifier.journal | International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning | en_GB |