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Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for University/Community Collaborative After-School Interventions

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Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for University/Community Collaborative After-School Interventions
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This paper explores a contrast between two strategies of intervention research. The first strategy, referred to as design experimentation, came to prominence through the writing of Ann Brown and Allan Collins. Design experiments were described as attempts to engineer innovative learning environments and simultaneously understand salient aspects of human cognition and learning. The core of the method is to place a version of a learning design into the world and iteratively revise the design in light of results from each implementation. The second strategy is referred to as mutual appropriation, a term used by Newman, Griffin, and Cole to describe teaching/learning processes in classrooms, but subsequently introduced into the intervention literature by Brown and Campione to describe an intervention process in which the nature of the intervention is not pre-specified, but negotiated among participants over time. We endeavor to show that a mutual appropriation approach can help the field create interventions which are themselves developmental in their fundamental methodology.
Date
10/1/2011
In publication
Theory & Psychology
Volume
21
Issue
5
Pages
656-680
Resource type
en
Resource status/form
en
Scholarship genre
en
en
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0959-3543
Citation
Downing-Wilson, D., Lecusay, R., & Cole, M. (2011). Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for University/Community Collaborative After-School Interventions. Theory & Psychology, 21(5), 656–680. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354311414456
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Theory & Psychology

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