Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age argues that despite rapid advances in
communications technology, most teaching still relies on traditional approaches to …

The analysis of group practices can make visible the work of novices learning how to inquire
in science or mathematics. These ubiquitous practices are invisibly taken for granted by …

Translating Euclid reports on an effort to transform geometry for students from a stylus-and-
clay-tablet corpus of historical theorems to a stimulating computer-supported collaborative …

Rational thinking as exemplified in mathematical cognition is immensely important in the
modern world. This book documents how a group of three eighth-grade girls developed …

This paper explores the emergence of joint problem solving in online environments where
the participants work together but at different times and from different places. Collaborations …

This chapter looks at the relationship of two historically and institutionally related research
communities: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and the Learning …

The interaction between participation and the emergence of common knowledge is the
subject matter of this paper. A case study of a single class provides the focal point of …

There is a venerable tradition in philosophy that cognition is a mysterious faculty of
individual human beings. Increasingly since the late nineteenth century, it has become clear …

Ethnomethodology (EM) is an approach to conducting research in the human sciences
founded by Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) and largely defined by his Studies in …

Supporting participants in web-based collaborative learning activities is important to avoid
inefficient contributions, improve learning process, and realize learning goals. The present …