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Collaboration is often promoted as an important strategy to enhance capacity-building. In the education sector it draws upon long-standing practices of social constructivist learning and teaching, which value working and learning from others. This chapter examines the collaborative process through the shared experiences of individuals and groups in a range of research projects. Although collaboration is often considered to be a worthy aim, this can create tension in a learning culture that, in neoliberal times, couches performance and productivity as outcomes of individualism and holds individual learners accountable for their success. Three distinctive settings are explored: an Australian senior secondary art classroom; an Australian teacher reflecting on her work supporting student well-being; and the work of an English drama teacher teaching circus skills.
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© 2014 Margaret Baguley, Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley and Catherine H. Arden
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Baguley, M. et al. (2014). Collaboration. In: Educational Learning and Development: Building and Enhancing Capacity. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392848_3
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