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Edited by Diane McGrath, Kansas State University

formerly Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Situated Learning in High School Information Technology Management

Larry Wolfson and John Willinsky
University of British Columbia

Abstract

This study examines the performance of a single information technology management (ITM) class to determine the ways in which this program manages to provide situated, authentic, collaborative, and reflective contexts that can be said to support student learning. Our aim here is not to determine what precisely students have learned, although aspects of this become clear; rather, it is to assess the extent to which the learning environment, as it relates to the claims of the situated learning literature, can be said to be indicative of situated-learning. At the same time, we also hope to provide a more complete description of service learning than is typically available.

Contributors

Larry Wolfson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. John Willinsky is a professor of language education at the University of British Columbia. (Address: Larry Wolfson, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4.)

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