Small-group collaboration and individual knowledge acquisition: The processes of growth during adolescence and early adulthood
| Autor: | Antonia Zachariou, Christine Howe |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Zachariou, Antonia [0000-0002-4598-8409], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Individual knowledge
05 social sciences 050301 education 3904 Specialist Studies In Education Late childhood Knowledge acquisition Education Developmental psychology Task (project management) 52 Psychology Early adulthood Developmental and Educational Psychology Relevance (law) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 39 Education Construct (philosophy) Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Small group collaboration 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Popis: | Research into small-group collaboration during middle to late childhood shows that while individual understanding can be promoted through exchanging differing opinions, the joint analyses that groups construct while collaborating play a tangential role. Individuals may or may not accept these constructions depending upon processes of reflection and reconciliation that are triggered through difference and sometimes occur post-group. Recognizing a dearth of research with older participants (together with inconclusive suggestions that collaborative constructions may become more significant with age), the reported study examines the impact of small-group collaboration during adolescence and early adulthood. Forty-six pairs of students aged between 10 and 22 years worked on a computer-presented task that required them to discuss and predict the trajectories objects follow when they fall from stationary or moving carriers. Associations between group dialogue and post-test performance confirmed a key role for differing opinions while collaborative constructions turned out to have little relevance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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