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      ‘Becoming Experts’: Learning through Mediation

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      Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction
      UUM Press

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          Purpose – This study is largely founded on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, Feuerstein’s theory of Mediated Learning Experience and Lave and Wenger’s ‘community of practice’, which concerned building a community of learners that places mediation as central in learning and teaching. While the overall study involved Malaysian Year One English and Mathematics classrooms, this article focuses only on the latter. Two research questions were posed: 1) How does the teacher/peers mediate learning? 2) How does mediation infl uence the individual’s identity?   Method – This qualitative study was conducted within a period of three months. Data collection included intense classroom observations, interviews, classroom discourse and dialogic discussions with teachers and pupils. Microgenetic analyses of transcripts were made to show moment-to moment changes observed.   Findings – Four types of mediation emerged from the data: Environmental mediation, cognitive mediation, affective mediation and metacognitive mediation (i.e., an ECAM model for mediation). Findings suggest that mediation enabled the Mathematics teacher to change, to take ownership and to sustain her new pedagogical approaches within the classroom. This re-focusing benefi ted her pupils, and dramatically changed a particular less able pupil from one who was initially ‘lost in his world,’ into one who was able to engage in the learning process, take ownership of his own learning, as well as mediate other pupils’ learning.   Value – Hence it is argued that the ECAM model for mediation provided opportunities for this teacher and her pupil to expand their capacity to learn and develop their identities as individuals capable of learning and becoming ‘experts’.  

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          Malaysia
          United Kingdom
          United Kingdom
          Journal
          Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction
          UUM Press
          January 29 2009
          : 6
          : 1-21
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Universiti Utara Malaysia
          Article
          10.32890/mjli.6.2009.7610
          1d3166f2-746f-43a9-9841-d30693aede48

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          Education,Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Conflict resolution & Mediation,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics

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