Re: [Air-l] Listserv research

Chris, You asked: "Does Tuckman have anything new that you can site? How about Pallof & Pratt? Pallof and Pratt are original thinkers. What they wrote is unconventional, in practice as well as in theory. For one because they have studied a real group of learners as opposed to lab-rat ones. For two they have studied this group from within and yet they haven't used ethnography. Finally, because their findings go completely against the conventional wisdom which has its origins into the cues-filtered out approach (and similar deterministic stands, even though socially or psychologically oriented). They didn't quite frame it in this way (and it's a pity), but what they did was action learning. Rosanna Tarsiero