EDS300H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Chris Argyris, Scottish Government, Lev Vygotsky
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Effective collaboration: deep collaboration as an essential element of the learning process. In this paper i argue that the process of collaboration is more complex than it may initially appear, and use boreham"s (2000) research as a vehicle to explore this complexity. Proximal development to provide a possible theoretical explanation of why collaboration can be effective. The way in which these terms are used tends to suggest that the underlying concepts they refer to are somehow understood in the same way by all participants in the field: academics, teachers, pupils and their parents. The difference between functional and effective collaboration can be likened to that between constructivism and social constructivism in the teaching and learning process. Similarly, functional collaboration can be seen as individuals behaving in a way that benefits each participant differently: the teacher is allowed to teach, and the learner can learn.
