Det store i det lille: Detaljert videoanalyse av gruppearbeid
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the use of video data to analyze at the micro level how groups share resources and knowledge with each other and how this may relate to how we understand and conceptualize learning in a video study. Video gives us the opportunity to study interaction at a detailed level and observe situations repeatedly. It also creates a unique opportunity to understand what happens in the interaction between students in group work when the teacher is not present. This study focuses on the actual social practices and more specifically on how students express what they know to each other and how they negotiate knowledge when they work together with practical tasks in groups. It examines how students situationally negotiate knowledge in group work and tries to make visible and understand what is being done, moment by moment, in the social interaction and how it may be linked to learning as a social phenomenon.