Thinking Together and Alone

@article{Kuhn2015ThinkingTA,
  title={Thinking Together and Alone},
  author={Deanna Kuhn},
  journal={Educational Researcher},
  year={2015},
  volume={44},
  pages={46 - 53}
}
  • D. Kuhn
  • Published 1 January 2015
  • Education
  • Educational Researcher
Collaborative intellectual engagement is held in high regard in contemporary educational thought as a pedagogical practice of broad value to K–12 students. To what extent is this enthusiasm warranted? Is the practice uniformly productive, or does variability exist in the contexts in which collaboration is effective, the mechanisms involved, and the objectives achieved? In addition to examining these questions, this article suggests further questions that might be addressed with the objective of… 
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