Student participation in peer interaction

This study explores how students deal with material resources in their peer interaction when working pairs an open-ended problem-solving task. The productive use of can be expected to support successful work. However, research into social phenomena is needed order identify and describe less forms dealing as participate tasks. Consequently, this explorative responds need. Based on multimodal data, including video recordings, transcribed talk the written contributions from four Year 7 aged 12-13 years, analysis focuses different ways which while negotiating participation they respond findings indicate that aspects are a key factor for describing by student pairs. Foregrounding increased awareness potential obstacles student-centred work among study’s classroom practice theory development.