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No one ever steps in the same discussion twice: the relationship between identities and meaning

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Publication date20/06/2016
Host publicationProceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners
EditorsChee-Kit Looi, Joseph Polman, Ulrike Cress, Peter Reimann
Place of PublicationSingapore
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences
Pages234-241
Number of pages8
Edition1
ISBN (print)9780990355090
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The concept of identification is a relational construct; that is, identities are not static but rather negotiated based on available material and symbolic resources. However, we know relatively little about how identities play a dual role when students collaborate. The aim of this paper is to explore this process through multiple case studies: we aim to explore how identities are enacted and used in making personal sense and understand the content knowledge, while at the same time we are interested in how this process can take a form of renewing process in the sense that the identities enacted are themselves changed, transformed or re-negotiated. Our results show that due to its dual role, identities mediate collaborative learning not only because knowledge is constructed in relation to identities but because online selves are articulated and constructed in relation to knowledge construction.