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2024

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts... more

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts to motivate some of these roles with reference to Humanistic Psychology, Social Interdependence Theory, Socio-Cultural Theory and Social Constructionism. The co-facilitator roles are planning the workshop, befriending participants and facilitators, providing general and technical assistance, modelling behaviours and tasks, observing workshop processes, participating alongside participants, correcting and clarifying what facilitators have said and done, sharing their own and participants' ideas, assessing the workshop's effectiveness and understudying the facilitator.

2021

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts... more

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts to motivate some of these roles with reference to Humanistic Psychology, Social Interdependence Theory, SocioCultural Theory and Social Constructionism. The co-facilitator roles are planning the workshop, befriending participants and facilitators, providing general and technical assistance, modelling behaviours and tasks, observing workshop processes, participating alongside participants, correcting and clarifying what facilitators have said and done, sharing their own and participants’ ideas, assessing the workshop’s effectiveness and understudying the facilitator.

2016

Prototyping is critical for refining designs, but to advance to this stage requires openness to changing ideas. We examine two cases of 14-year old children constructing and playtesting physical prototypes of digital games: one group... more

Prototyping is critical for refining designs, but to advance to this stage requires openness to changing ideas. We examine two cases of 14-year old children constructing and playtesting physical prototypes of digital games: one group characterized as flexible in their ideas, and the other characterized as fixated. Field notes, audio recordings, and design artifacts show how one team's flexibility allowed them to discover material constraints and affordances through prototyping; while the other's fixation influenced his prototyping strategy and limited his learning from it. We explore how questions from facilitators helped both teams to elaborate and generate ideas. This study has implications for supporting children in game design.

2014, Journal of Co-operative Studies

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts... more

This paper argues that workshop co-facilitators should be actively involved in planning, conducting and debriefing the workshops in which they are involved. The paper discusses 12 possible roles for workshop co-facilitators and attempts to motivate some of these roles with reference to Humanistic Psychology, Social Interdependence Theory, Socio-Cultural Theory and Social Constructionism. The co-facilitator roles are planning the workshop, befriending participants and facilitators, providing general and technical assistance, modelling behaviours and tasks, observing workshop processes, participating alongside participants, correcting and clarifying what facilitators have said and done, sharing their own and participants’ ideas, assessing the workshop’s effectiveness and understudying the facilitator.