Archive for July, 2008



Quote to include

Published on July 30, 2008

‘collaboration should be recognised as a state of social engagement that, on any given occasion, is more or less active and more or less effectively resourced. So, collaborators may vary in their concern to create shared understandings; and their circumstances of joint activity may vary in how readily they permit such achievements to be brought […]


Referencing

Published on July 2, 2008

The next section of my thesis deals with ‘improvable objects’, an idea introduced in Wells’ book ‘Dialogic Inquiry’. Wells credits the idea to Bereiter and Scardamalia in 1996 ‘This focus on an “improvable object,” as Bereiter and Scardmalia (1996) term it[…]’ so I go and read their chapter. Can’t find the term. Well, Scardamalia is […]