Gemeinsame Wissenskonstruktion -Theoretische und Methodologische Aspekte

The focus of the paper is on important theoretical perspectives on
collaborative knowledge construction: The socio-genetical
perspective, the cognitive perspective of information processing,
the socio-cultural and situated perspectives, the perspective of
argumentative discourse, and the perspective of collective
information processing. Each perspective is described with respect
to its basic idea, main research questions, theoretical aspects of
collaborative knowledge construction in discourse, and methodology
typically applied. On this background, conclusions for theory
building and empirical research are draw.