Welcome to this open guest lecture by Michael J. Baker!
Baker is a tenured Research Director/Professor in Language Sciences of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He currently works in the Social and Economic Sciences department of Télécom Paris, the French national graduate school for telecom engineering.
About the lecture: (Re)thinking Collaboration
In research in psychology, education and technology, the conceptutalisation group learning as collaboration rose to prominence in the 1980s, after a long winter of focussing on the individual, giving rise to what could be termed the ‘standard model’ (Miyake, 1989; Roschelle & Teasley, 1995; Dillenbourg, 1999). Thus, collaboration involves joint agency oriented towards the elaboration of a “joint problem space”.
In the first part of this talk I will address microanalysis of collaboration, the questions of the nature of the joint space and how it is constructed. In a second part of the talk I will try to broaden the vision of collaboration, situating it within technology-mediated collective activities.
More about the guest lecturer
Michael J. Baker carries out interdisciplinary research (psychology/ language sciences) on analysing dialogues in group learning, design and creativity situations, often involving technology mediation, focusing on constructive argumentation and the role of emotion.
Baker is currently co-director of the research group on uses of technology, participation and democratisation of innovation, within the CNRS lab «Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation», which groups together the social and economic sciences departments of three engineering schools: Télécom Paris, École Polytechnique and École des Mines.
After studies in philosophy and psychology at the University of Durham (1st class honours, 1982; University Scholar, Gabbett prizes in philosophy, psychology), in music at the University of Huddersfield, then a PhD in cognitive science at the Open University (1990), he was awarded the habilitation à diriger des recherches in psychology in 2004 (a post-PhD degree required for a full professor position) for research on knowledge elaboration in dialogue.
Michael Baker has been visiting professor at the universities of Stockholm/KTH and Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He directed research teams on interaction and cognition within language sciences research labs in Lyon (ENS, ICAR) and Paris (LEAPLE, Sorbonne; MODYCO, University Paris Nanterre) before joining Télécom Paris in 2008.
Practical information
The quest lecture is open to everyone. No registration is required.
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Organiser
Living and Learning in the Digital Age (LIDA)
Contact
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Anders Mørch or Sten Ludvigsen