The four Special Issue learning communities mediated members toward consensus, with no reports of longstanding dissent¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? Across the four Special Issue papers, community members' interactions were mediated so that communal construction ended in agreement, and no longstanding dissent was reported. → Trninic 2018

Evidence¶

Trninic 2018¶

Trninic, D., Swanson, H., & Kapur, M. (2018). Productive dissent in learning communities. Instructional Science, 46(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-018-9466-0

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

The authors' reading of the four Special Issue papers (Fong and Slotta; Tao and Zhang; Ma and Hall; Hod and Ben-Zvi): learners negotiated knowledge, practices, and identities to varying degrees, but interactions were mediated so discussions converged on agreement. This is the authors' interpretive commentary, not a systematic analysis.

"Across the papers, there were no reports of longstanding dissent where community members remained at odds with each other, or with the community as a whole. Rather, it appears to have been tacitly decided that a community, when at crossroads, should quickly reach consensus and move forward as a unified whole."

Discussion¶

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