Book chapter
Student and Team Agency in VMT
Studying Virtual Math Teams
03 Aug 2009
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Abstract
Agency is inherently a central concern for constructivist education. CSCL researchers need to think about the effectiveness of online learning environments in terms of how they encourage student groups to take active control of their learning activities. This chapter draws on the anthropological, psychological and sociological traditions and their concept of agency in order to consider the relationship between individual and group agency and to understand the differing constraints on interaction in classrooms and online. It then investigates agency in sessions of mathematical discourse in the VMT chat environment. Our empirical discourse analysis displays instances of significant agentic behavior and our theoretical review suggests that there are structural features to the VMT online environment that encourage agentic behavior on the part of students, individually and as a group. This has important implications for understanding learning and for designing pedagogic activities.
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- Title
- Student and Team Agency in VMT
- Creators
- Elizabeth S. Charles - Dawson CollegeWesley Shumar - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Studying Virtual Math Teams
- Series
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series
- Publisher
- Springer US; Boston, MA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000270227900011
- Other Identifier
- 991019167422104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Education, Scientific Disciplines
- Mathematics