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CSCL 2007
Reducibility vs. emergent entities
Friedrich Hesse
Knowledge Media Research Center
Tübingen, Germany
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CSCL deals with
CSCL deals with „collaboration“ and
„learning“ in a socio-technological
environment
learning (or „up taking“ or „meaning
making“ or even cognition)?
process or the outcome?
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aspects of learning
1) individual learning (of a single person)
2) „group learning“ (even if it is part of the
individuals there is something beyond that,
existing only when the group is together)
3) changing the environment e.g. in terms of
new or adapted tools?
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Nature of processes
1) individual learning
2) „group learning“
3) changing the environment
main point: clear about the nature of each
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Group phenomena
ad 2) „group learning“
phenomena, which only exist, if there are a
certain number of persons together as a
group
Examples:
The music piece
Hooliganism
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Music piece
The music piece, e.g. a trio:
one can only listen to this music if the trio is
acting in a special way together. It cannot be done
the same way by a single person. However the
way they have to interact has been written up by
a composer before and how it sounds depends on
their skills and the instruments (tools). Would we
call this „group learning“? Would it be important
that exactly the same people come together and
even then, would it sound the same?
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Hooliganism
Hooliganism:
Persons being quite „normal“ in everyday life
could be part of a group of hooligans and
reacting quite strange in that context. Is this
something which can seen as an emergent
phenomena coming out of the group
interacting? Or is it probably something, which
is part of these individuals and just needs some
special conditions to become overt?
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Analytic viewpoint
differentiate between components which are part
of the individuals and a composition which is
only existing when the components are put
together. From an analytical point of view this
asks for
• knowing, what the components are
• which way they are interacting
• to which degree to outcome is predictable or
has some degree of freedom
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just division of labor?
The questions remains, is it this we
mean with „group learning“ and do we
need this term or another label to
address this? How far away is this from
terms like „division of coordinated
labor“ and from products resulting from
that?