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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Collaborative Knowledge Building through Online Reflective Journals
AU - Luchinskaya, Elena
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Using the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and the results of a three-year EUTEMPUS project (2002-5) coordinated by Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, and a follow up ESCalate project (2005) in the Udmurt Republic,Russian Federation, this paper assesses the usefulness of computer mediatedcommunication, in particular online reflective journals as a means ofencouraging collaborative knowledge building in the field of social policy inRussia. It explores the difficulties of using such a technique in Russia, whereacademics and practitioners are unfamiliar with reflective practices, andoutlines the benefits of using this approach and Bakhtin’s theory of speechgenres in analysing how collaborative knowledge building takes place.
AB - Using the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and the results of a three-year EUTEMPUS project (2002-5) coordinated by Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, and a follow up ESCalate project (2005) in the Udmurt Republic,Russian Federation, this paper assesses the usefulness of computer mediatedcommunication, in particular online reflective journals as a means ofencouraging collaborative knowledge building in the field of social policy inRussia. It explores the difficulties of using such a technique in Russia, whereacademics and practitioners are unfamiliar with reflective practices, andoutlines the benefits of using this approach and Bakhtin’s theory of speechgenres in analysing how collaborative knowledge building takes place.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9780954587062
BT - Beyond control: learning technology for the social network generation.
A2 - Wheeler, S
A2 - Whitton, N
PB - The Association for Learning Technology
ER -