Preface

Part I Development

Collaborative Learning: An Underlying Skills Approach

Sharon Ding

Emma Flynn

Is Collaborative Learning Influenced by Children's Representations?

David J. Messer

Karen J. Pine

Part II Mediation

Peer Interaction and the Effect of Task Presentation on the Acquisition of Scientific Reasoning

Richard Joiner

Dorothy Faulkner

Karen Littleton

Dorothy Miell

Linda Thompson

Children's Collaborative Music Composition: Communication through Music

Louise Morgan

David Hargreaves

Richard Joiner

Musical Conversations: Collaborating with a Friend on Creative Tasks

Raymond MacDonald

Dorothy Miell

Part III Adult Support and Guidance

Co-ordinating Support for Conceptual and Procedural Learning in Science

Christine Howe

Val Duchak-Tanner

Andy Tolmie

The Role of Adult Guidance and Peer Collaboration in Child Pedestrian Training

Andrew Tolmie

James Thomson

Hugh Foot

Applying a Dialogical Model of Reason in the Classroom

Rupert Wegerif

Part IV Identity, Motivation and Affect

Gender Identities and the Process of Negotiation in Social Interaction

Patricia Murphy

Motivation and the Ecology of Collaborative Learning

Charles Crook

Taking Time Out from Collaboration: Opportunities for Synthesis and Emotion Regulation

Margarita Azmitia

Part V Making Space for Collaborative Learning

Up for Debate: CMC as a Support for Collaborative Learning in a Campus University Setting

Vivienne Light

Paul Light

Emma Nesbitt

Stevan Harnad

Technological Mediation of Synchronous Collaboration: Science and Statistics in SharedARK and KANSAS

Eileen Scanlon

Tim O'Shea

Randall B. Smith

Richard Joiner

Collaborating and Learning in a Project of Regional Development Supported by New Information and Communication Technologies

Pascale Marro Clement

Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Rethinking Collaborative Learning: An Overview

Karen Littleton

Index