Kp-lab: Breaking New Ground on How to Create Knowledge through Learning

This document, presents a synthesis of the pedagogical methodological work done within the framework of the KP-LAB (Knowledge Practices Laboratory) project, which, together with a consortium of 22 research institutions from different European countries, has been investigating the concept of trialogical learning for the past four years. We begin with a description of the underlying approach of the project, and describe the context in which it has emerged as well as the basic tenets or characteristics of the approach. We then present a framework, in other words a way of describing learning in process terms. In the work undertaken by the KP-Lab team, this framework has given rise to a series of learning contexts, practical realisations of the framework in different settings, in-company knowledge creation for example, or collaborative work in the classroom. These contexts have given rise to pedagogical learning scenarios, descriptions of various methods enabling learners to attain certain learning objectives by performing certain educational activities in a certain order in the context of a certain learning environment the knowledge creation environment.