Affective Learning Together

Michael Baker is a CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Research Director, working in the Economic and Social Sciences Department of Télécom ParisTech Graduate Engineering School in Paris, France.

Affective Learning Together contains in-depth theoretical reviews and case studies of group learning in a variety of educational situations and taught disciplines, from small groups working in the secondary school classroom, to teams of medical students and more informal working groups at university level. Contributors provide detailed analyses of the dynamics of interpersonal relations and affects, in relation with processes of meaning and knowledge elaboration, including discussion of:

1. Introduction: visions of learning together; 2. Varieties of "togetherness" in learning ¿ and their mediation; 3. Emotions: characteristics, emergence and circulation in interactional learning; 4. Feeling and Meaning in the Social Ecology of Learning: Lessons from Play and Games; 5. Knowledge co-construction ¿ epistemic consensus or relational assent?; 6. Paper and computers: gender differences in children¿s conversations in collaborative activities; 7. Motivation and Emotion Shaping Knowledge Co-Construction; 8. Regulating emotions together for motivated collaboration; 9. Identifying and overcoming tension in interdisciplinary teamwork in professional development; 10. Getting on and getting along: tension in the development of collaboration; 11. A sociocultural perspective on conflict in argumentative designs; 12. Epistemic and interpersonal dimensions of peer argumentation: Conceptualization and quantitative assessment; 13. "Look whös talking": Identity and emotions as resources to historical peer reasoning