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partner may play a role. So, in a study about group work at computers
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partner may play a role. So, in a study about group work at computers, Hoyles, Healy, and Pozzi (1993) were able to find a link between an initial antagonism between some group members and the emergence of a competi- tive organizational style within the group. Several reports mention that conflicts are not always solved by rational arguments but also by authority arguments. Arrangements can be found among partners that are external to the mathematical problem. And if a conflict is solved by rational arguments, neither the solution nor the reason is necessarily correct from a mathematical point of view. Balacheff (1991, pp. 188-189) concludes from an experiment on proving processes developed by students working in pairs that social interaction may give rise to argu- mentative behaviors leading to a resolution of the conflict on a nonscientific basis. Balacheff claims that these behaviors may even become obstacles to the elaboration of a proof by students. They can, for instance, favor naive empiricism or the use of a crucial experiment instead of a higher-level proof. Coming back to my initial interpretation, I interpret this claim as the so- cial problem overtaking the mathematical one: Students are more eager to win socially than solve the problem. In this sense, it is possible to consider social interaction as a potential obstacle to the "devolution" (i.e., the appro- priation) of the mathematical problem and thus to the development of math- ematical processes. 3. COOPERATION IN THE SOLVING PROCESS It has also been observed that, even when students are not in conflict, coop- erative work may lead to a better solution than individual work (Vandenplas-Holper, cited in Beaudichon & Vandenplas-Holper, 1985). Uyemura-Stevenson (cited in De Avila, 1988, p. 113) found significant re- lationships between student-student consultation and performances or even math conceptualization, more than when student-student consultation was replaced with teacher-student consultation or when both consultations were combined. COLETTE LABORDE Cooperative work is more widespread in classrooms than conflicting situ- ations. Grevsmühl (1991) analyzed the verbal exchanges between students in pairs solving mathematical word problems and observed that the major Download 5.72 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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