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When your graduate cohort embodies the learning theory conflicts you're studying

Our graduate cohort started with shared excitement about social constructivism, but now we're split between those who think collaborative learning is essential and others who've gone back to individual competition for grades. The group dynamic has become exactly what we're supposed to be studying, and nobody wants to address it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A learning community discovers their own group process has become a live case study in the tensions they're meant to be examining academically.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning theories — behaviorism through constructivism?”

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