Collaborative Cognition Children Negotiating Ways of Knowing

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COLLABORATIVE
COGNITION
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COLLABORATIVE
COGNITION
Children Negotiating
Ways of Knowing
David J. Bearison and Bruce Dorval
with Gess LeBlanc, Andrea Sadow, Daniela Plesa,
and Commentary by Anna Stetsenko
AdvancesinDiscourseProcesses
RoyO.Freedle,SeriesEditor
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Social Cognition 1
2 The Social Context of Interpersonal Negotiations 23
3 Method 37
4 Differential Analyses 55
5 Sequential Analyses 77
6 Discussion 103
7 Constructive Features of Collaborative Cognition 117
Commentary by Anna Stetsenko 123
Appendix: The Coding Manual 137
References 155
vi Contents
Index 169
About the Authors and Contributors 175
List of Illustrations
TABLES
1 Paradigmatic Shifts in Studies of Peer Interaction
and Cognitive Development According to How
Process and Achievement Are Assessed 21
2 Verbatim Excerpt from the Collaborative Discourse
of Two Fifth Graders (A & B) Co-constructing a
Board Game 28
3 Outline of Dyadic Interaction Codes 42
4 Ongoing Inter-Rater Reliabilities of Dyadic
Interaction Codes 53
5 Mean Frequencies and Standard Deviations of
Conversational Turns, Turns per Negotiation
Episode, and Negotiation Episodes by Grade and
Gender 57
6 Means (and Standard Deviations) of Proportions of
Conversational Turns Across Types of
Negotiations 62
viii ListofIllustrations
7 Results from the Negotiation X Sequence
Interaction from the Lag 1 Log Linear Analysis of
Grade X Gender X Sequence X Negotiation
Strategy 82
8 Significant Findings from Log-Linear Analyses of
Third Turn Lag 1 Sequences in Chains of
Conversational Turns Beginning with Initial
Proposals by Types of Negotiation Strategies 88
9 Significant Second and Third Turn Conversational
Sequences Following Initial Proposals by Types of
Negotiations 96
10 Illustrated Patterns of Sequences of Conversational
Turns Associated with Expansive Types of
Negotiations 100
FIGURE
1 Mean Game Complexity Level as a Function of
Negotiation Episode by Grade 69
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by a grant to the first author from
the National Institute ofChild HealthandHumanDevelopment
(Grant No. HD27229). We gratefully acknowledgetheassistance
of Roger Bakeman who was a valued consultant on the sequen-
tial analyses of the data.