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    From exclusion to inclusion: Collaborative work contributions to more inclusive learning settings

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    There have been deep changes in societies during the last decade. As a result, schools face new challenges, such as avoiding exclusion by promoting inclusion. In this paper we present the findings of our efforts to use collaborative work as a mediation tool in order to achieve more inclusive learning settings. This work starts from the assumption that learning should be seen as a communicative process. This builds on the ideas of Vygotsky, who stressed the importance of social interactions in the development of complex functions and of working in the zone of proximal development in order to promote children's development. The study used a critical and ethnographic approach and thus peer interactions were implemented as a daily practice. Data were collected through participant observation (audio and videotaped), questionnaires, tasks inspired in projective techniques, interviews, reports, and sets of materials gathered by the teachers. The findings illuminate the role of collaboration in facilitating more positive attitudes towards academic learning and mathematics, promoting students' socialisation, their socio-cognitive and affective development, and their school achievement.Pendant les derniĂšres annĂ©es la sociĂ©tĂ© a changĂ© et les Ă©coles doivent rĂ©pondre Ă  des nouveaux dĂ©fis, comme par exemple Ă©viter l’exclusion en favorisant l’intĂ©gration (1). dans cet article nous prĂ©sentons les rĂ©sultats de nos efforts pour utiliser le travail collaboratif comme mĂ©diateur pour accomplir des scenarios d’apprentissage plus inclusives. Ce travail est basĂ© sur le fait que nous considĂ©rons l’apprentissage comme um processus de communication. Cette conception a origine dans les travaux de Vygotsky qui a signalĂ© l'importance des interactions sociales dans le dĂ©veloppement des fonctions complexes et le rĂŽle de la zone proximale de dĂ©veloppement dans le dĂ©veloppement des enfants. Notre but est l'Ă©tude de ce travail de collaboration entre pairs dans la promotion de sĂ©ances d'apprentissage qui favorisent l’intĂ©gration. La recherche comprend une approche critique et ethnographique et les interactions entre pairs ont Ă©tĂ© mises en pratique quotidiennement. Les donnĂ©es ont Ă©tĂ© recueillies Ă  partir de sĂ©ances d'observation (enregistrĂ©es et vidĂ©oscopiĂ©es), questionnaires, tĂąches d’inspiration projective, interviews, rapports et documents rassemblĂ©s par les enseignants. Les rĂ©sultats illuminent le rĂŽle du travail collaboratif dans le dĂ©veloppement d’attitudes acadĂ©miques plus positives, de la socialisation des Ă©lĂšves, de leur dĂ©veloppement sociocognitif et Ă©motionnel et de leur succĂšs scolaire
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