The knowledge-creation metaphor as a third basic metaphor of learning alongside acquisition and participation¶

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Description¶

The paper reports that the Trialogical Approach emerged in response to the distinction between acquisition and participation metaphors of learning, with the University of Helsinki group arguing that a third basic metaphor of learning should be defined to account for societal change, new technology, and the pressure to deliberately create new knowledge. This knowledge-creation metaphor aims to understand how people organise their collaborative learning processes and incorporates the means they use to create and develop a concrete entity together, which might be a process, a practice, an artefact or an idea made explicit. The Trialogical Approach builds on this metaphor, which in KP-Lab operates as an umbrella framework emphasising commonalities between different approaches.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A theoretical basis distinguishing knowledge-creation learning from acquisition- and participation-oriented accounts

Constraints¶

• The metaphor emerged from and is situated in CSCL, workplace and organisational learning, teacher education and open source community analysis contexts

Target Learners¶

• higher education students
• workplace knowledge workers

Target Learning Objectives¶

• understanding collaborative knowledge creation processes

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Trialogical Learning Framework

Examples¶

• Design learning for knowledge creation by delegating responsibility for developing shared, re-usable knowledge objects to learners
• Pedagogical scenarios that organise learning around knowledge creation with shared objects
• Seven basic characteristics of trialogical learning processes
• Knowledge Practices Environment (KPE): a platform for object-centred collaborative knowledge creation
• KP-Lab toolset supporting four types of mediation, including the Visual Model Editor and analytic mirroring tools
• Promote knowledge creation by coordinating group practices, technology affordances, interaction genres, community metaskills, and trialogical learning through design-based research

Key Sources¶

• Reynolds, S., & Camilleri, A. F. (2010). KP-LAB: Breaking New Ground on How to Create Knowledge Through Learning. EDEN 2010 Conference, Valencia.