Analysis of the Refinement Stage in the Implementation of a Group Project by Primary School Second-Graders

This paper describes the Phase II results of qualitative research involving design teams of primary school second-graders divided as follows: designers (D) – the creators of a solution; clients (C) and executors (E) – helping to improve the project. The study aimed to observe and describe what questions and feedback stimulated new idea generation to improve the initial solution, addressing the following research question: What does a constructive dialogue between peers look like when developing a group project? The adopted research approach was based on educational team design (the case study method). Based on observations and peer conversations, the authors determined the conditions that facilitated constructive dialogue, and those that hindered the accomplishment of the group work in question.

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