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The orchestration of a collaborative information seeking learning task
The paper describes our novel perspective on ‘searching to learn’ through collaborative information seeking (CIS). We describe this perspective, which motivated empirical work to ‘orchestrate’ a CIS searching ...
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Learning Through Collaborative Information Seeking
This chapter discusses Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) from an educational perspective. Our core claim is that CIS has the potential to bring together rich collaborative, and multimodal, contexts in wh...
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Negotiating a Contemporary Creative Identity
More than two decades of discussion of the cultural and creative industries by academics, educationalists and policy-makers has led, inevitably, to considerable interest in the experience and motivations of th...
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Special Issue Introduction: Creativity and Creative Work in Contemporary Working Contexts
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Tracing the Transition from Study to a Contemporary Creative Working Life: The Trajectories of Professional Musicians
The classical music academy is a site dominated by traditional meanings of creative practice and an image of the professional creative career as solo performer that is fully available to only a very few studen...
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Open AccessTeachers’ Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations
Recent studies have described professional identity as the interplay between individual agency and social context. However, we need to understand how these are intertwined in different kinds of work settings. ...
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The mediating effect of task presentation on collaboration and children’s acquisition of scientific reasoning
There has been considerable research concerning peer interaction and the acquisition of children’s scientific reasoning. This study investigated differences in collaborative activity between pairs of children ...
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Gender, task contexts, and children's performance on a computer-based task
Gender differences in response to computers have been widely reported. This study addresses the question of how far the context in which a computer task is presented can affect girls' and boys' on-task perform...
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Situational Effects in Computer-Based Problem Solving
Possible bases of peer facilitation of children’s learning are explored, drawing upon concepts from developmental psychology. Against this background, studies of social aspects of children’s computer use in sc...
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Social and communicative processes in computer-based problem solving
This paper overviews the results of four studies designed to investigate the effects of collaborative modes of computer use upon children's performance and learning. All used the same type of problem solving t...
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Pairing and gender effects on children’s computer-based learning
This paper reports an experimental study in which one hundred and twenty 11 and 12 year olds worked on a computer based problem solving task couched in an adventure game format. Previous results with this type...
