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Systemic Intervention for Computer‐Supported Collaborative Learning
Author(s) -
BarrosCastro Ricardo A.,
Midgley Gerald,
Pinzón Luis
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2220
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , computer supported collaborative learning , context (archaeology) , promotion (chess) , collaborative learning , process (computing) , systems thinking , computer science , knowledge management , psychology , political science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , paleontology , politics , law , biology , operating system
This paper presents a systemic intervention approach as a means to overcome the methodological challenges involved in research into computer‐supported collaborative learning applied to the promotion of mathematical problem‐solving (CSCL‐MPS) skills in schools. These challenges include how to develop an integrated analysis of several aspects of the learning process; and how to reflect on learning purposes, the context of application and participants' identities. The focus of systemic intervention is on processes for thinking through whose views and what issues and values should be considered pertinent in an analysis. Systemic intervention also advocates mixing methods from different traditions to address the purposes of multiple stakeholders. Consequently, a design for CSCL‐MPS research is presented that includes several methods. This methodological design is used to analyse and reflect upon both a CSCL‐MPS project with Colombian schools, and the identities of the participants in that project. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.