Collaboration

Essential information, tools, and examples teachers and school leaders need to create, manage, and sustain successful collaborative groups.

Collaborative learning puts into practice the major conclusion from learning theory: that students must be actively engaged in building their own minds. With practical advice on how to form student groups, assign roles, build team spirit, address unexpected problems, and evaluate and grade student participation, this new edition of the international classic makes incorporating effective group work easy.

Critical Collaborative Communities describes diverse examples of partnerships from writing regularly with one or two colleagues to larger groups that meet for a single day, regular writing meetings, or a retreat over several days. While these approaches bring mutual support for members, each is not without its respective challenges. Each chapter outlines an approach to writing partnerships and interrogates its strengths and limitations as well as proposes recommendations for others hoping to implement the practice.

Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities: Schools, University, and Community Organizations expands the playing field to include both publicly and privately funded community organizations and the effects of the interaction of the three on projects in a multitude of settings both domestically and in international venues.

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines.

This collection reflects current and nuanced discussions of the ways collaboration and participation meaningfully inform the production, study, and teaching of art with innovative and unexpected results.

This book considers what happens, and how, when people draw together either in the form of a collaboration, or through a collective process. The contributions here serve to establish the field of collective and collaborative drawing as distinct from the types of drawing undertaken by artists, designers, and architects within a professional context.

Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers describes how writers can co-create vast worlds for use as common settings for their own stories.

This handbook presents applications, concepts, techniques, methodologies, issues, and trends related to collaboration and social networking in a knowledge management context.

Collaboration is a soft skill that needs to be learned by every team member to create a collaborative culture. Readers will learn how to create collaborative leadership aimed at engaging teams and groups outside formal control for trust and innovation and inspiring them toward common goals.

This book explores the complex experiences and social dynamics that emerge within and between collaborative spaces and how they impact, sometimes unexpectedly, creativity and innovation.

This publication provides a practical framework, with clear supporting recommendations, for clients and service providers to work together to overcome challenges and successfully manage, develop, and deliver innovation as a key part of their ongoing service relationship.