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Rotating leadership and collective responsibility in a grade 4 Knowledge Building classroom

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  • Leanne Ma
  • Yoshiaki Matsuzawa
  • Marlene Scardamalia

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Productive collaborative engagement in increasingly global, innovative enterprises requires feeling at home with complexity and knowledge creation. Knowledge Building aims to engage students directly in sustained creative work with ideas from the earliest years of schooling, with all students taking responsibility for advancing community knowledge. Knowledge Forum technology aims to make knowledge-creating interactions integral to day-today knowledge work and extensible to all students, creating opportunities for rotating leadership, a feature of collaborative innovation networks. In this study we examined social network patterns of rotating leadership in an elementary school class and the discourse moves associated with temporary leadership. We found a relatively decentralised student network, with 20 out of 22 students leading the group at different points in time by connecting unique ideas to the larger class discussion. Our findings are discussed within the context of education for the Knowledge Age.

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  • Leanne Ma & Yoshiaki Matsuzawa & Marlene Scardamalia, 2016. "Rotating leadership and collective responsibility in a grade 4 Knowledge Building classroom," International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(1/2), pages 54-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijodei:v:4:y:2016:i:1/2:p:54-84
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