Abstract
Fast-moving changes to society as part of the digital age are posing new educational challenges that include developing students who are flexible, adaptive, and growth-oriented. Knowledge building communities (KBCs) are a growth-promoting pedagogy, suitable to address these challenges. Yet, developing students’ identities as knowledge builders remains undertheorized. In this study, we rise above existing frameworks of fixedness and fluidity to elucidate how students and communities develop growth orientations. Using a grounded theoretical approach, we examined a KBC of graduate students, coding 324 relevant utterances that were expressed by the 18 students over the course of a semester. This resulted in a five-category model of fixedness and growth in KBCs that was then used to describe the overall development of the community as well as the transformation of one student. This study advances both theoretical and practical ideas about how to prepare students for life in the rapidly-changing world.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences |
Subtitle of host publication | The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Conference Proceedings |
Editors | Melissa Gresalfi, Ilana Seidel Horn |
Publisher | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Pages | 90-97 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781732467255 |
State | Published - 2020 |
Event | 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Nashville, United States Duration: 19 Jun 2020 → 23 Jun 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL |
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Volume | 1 |
ISSN (Print) | 1573-4552 |
Conference
Conference | 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Nashville |
Period | 19/06/20 → 23/06/20 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© ISLS
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Education