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Huang, Peisheng, Wright, April L. and Middleton, Stuart (2022) How material objects shape student team learning processes. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21 (1). pp. 35-60. doi:10.5465/amle.2020.0025 ISSN 1537-260X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0025
Abstract
We bring attention to the important, but previously overlooked, role that seemingly mundane material objects in management classrooms can have in student team learning processes. Specifically, we consider how material objects can shape team learning processes. We conducted an inductive qualitative study exploring how teams in an undergraduate strategy course worked together using two types of material objects: (a) whiteboards and (b) flip charts. Our findings indicate that how students interact with material objects when participating in team learning processes is influenced by four properties: (a) object location (static, mobile), (b) record-keeping (temporary, permanent), (c) form (whole, segmented), and (d) sensory awareness. These properties were found to afford student teams different possibilities for using the object which, in turn, shapes team learning processes through the level of agency over embodied learning, the nature of problem-solving behaviors (expansionist or reductionist), and approach to conceptual understanding (synergistic or discrete). The study contributes nuanced insight into the role of material objects in team learning processes and has pedagogical and practical implications for researchers and educators.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Team learning approach in education , Group work in education , Blended learning, Educational innovations, Learning strategies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Learning & Education | ||||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1537-260X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 March 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 35-60 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.5465/amle.2020.0025 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 June 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2023 | ||||||
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