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SUMMARY:CEDiR Group Seminar: Investigating the Social Nature of Classroom 
 Learning: Evolving Methodologies - Professor David Clarke &amp\; Dr Esther
  Chan\, University of Melbourne
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Many of the processes by which educational phenomena are exper
 ienced and by which the products of the learning process are enacted are e
 ssentially social. Further\, the institutions (e.g.\, schools) and the ind
 ividuals (e.g.\, teachers)\, whose primary function is to promote learning
 \, do so by means of social interaction. Contemporary learning theorists h
 ave attempted to integrate social interaction into their theories in ways 
 that do more than relegate the social to simply a context for cognition. H
 owever\, developing an empirical basis for such theories has proved challe
 nging. From initial fine-grained investigation of learning in naturalistic
  classroom settings in Australia\, for fifteen years our approach employed
  cross-cultural comparison of teaching and learning in the classrooms in m
 ore than a dozen countries. The recent establishment of a laboratory class
 room at the University of Melbourne offers the opportunity to investigate 
 student collaborative activity in new levels of detail. We propose that st
 udent socially-performed negotiative activity constitutes an essential asp
 ect of the learning process in classrooms but also a key learning product 
 on which more sophisticated intellectual activity is dependent. This prese
 ntation provides an overview of the research program undertaken at the Int
 ernational Centre for Classroom Research (ICCR) at the University of Melbo
 urne to investigate the social nature of classroom learning.\n\n*David Cla
 rke* is a Professor at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Int
 ernational Centre for Classroom Research (ICCR). Over the last twenty year
 s\, his research activity has centred on capturing the complexity of class
 room practice through a program of international video-based classroom res
 earch. The development of the Science of Learning Research Classroom provi
 des Professor Clarke with new levels of detail and experimental precision 
 for his investigation into the social essentials of learning.\n\n*Dr Esthe
 r Chan* is a Research Fellow in the ICCR. She is a registered psychologist
  who specialises in educational psychology and assessment. She is the Proj
 ect Manager of the Social Unit of Learning project which uses collaborativ
 e problem solving in mathematics to investigate the social nature of learn
 ing utilising the Science of Learning Research Classroom.\n
LOCATION:DMB 1S3\, Faculty of Education\, Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PH
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