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Fostering Knowledge Co-Construction through Training in Transactive Communication

Evidence for Training Effects from Analysing Students’ Discourse

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Transactive communication is defined as referring to and building up on a learning partner’s idea. Thereby, the partner’s idea is transformed into a more elaborate one. Examples for transactive statements are critiquing the partner’s idea, extending the partner’s idea or integrating the partner’s idea with an idea of one’s own.

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Jurkowski, S., Hänzea, M. (2016). Fostering Knowledge Co-Construction through Training in Transactive Communication. In: Surian, A. (eds) Open Spaces for Interactions and Learning Diversities. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-340-7_7

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