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Interactional analysis of emergent distributed leadership in collaborative learning

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The editorial argues against folk-theory conceptions that label individuals as leader, follower, lurker or lazy, and against simply assigning a leadership role to one student per group. It states that "roles being conceptualized as group processes, addressing multiple distinct facets of collaboration and being naturally distributed across the group." Leadership is emergent from group interaction and distributed among group members, moving analysis away from the idea that leaders are just born that way.

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  • Analyze roles and leadership as distributed group processes, not assigned individual attributes: The editorial argues against folk-theory conceptions that label individuals as leader, follower, lurker or lazy, and against simply assigning a leadership role to one student per group. It states that "roles being conceptualized as group processes, addressing multiple distinct facets of collaboration and being naturally distributed across the group." Leadership is emergent from group interaction and distributed among group members, moving analysis away from the idea that leaders are just born that way. (Gerry Stahl et al. (2014))

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  • Gerry Stahl, Nancy Law, Ulrike Cress & Sten Ludvigsen. (2014). Analyzing roles of individuals in small-group collaboration processes. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 9, 365–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-014-9204-9
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id interactional-analysis-of-emergent-distributed-leadership-in-collaborative-learning
title Interactional analysis of emergent distributed leadership in collaborative learning
description The editorial argues against folk-theory conceptions that label individuals as leader, follower, lurker or lazy, and against simply assigning a leadership role to one student per group.
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