Gestures orchestrating the multimodal development of ideas in educational design team meetings

Published Date
November 2016, Vol.47:1–22, doi:10.1016/j.destud.2016.08.001

Author 
Dewa Wardak ^,

Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

Available online 30 August 2016. 

Highlights

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  Designers reach shared understanding using a range of nonverbal communicative modes.
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  Gestures play an important coordinating role in collaborative educational design team meetings.
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  Technological tools need to support multimodal communication in design teams.

This paper is part of a programme of research on the future of educational design – working on better methods, tools and spaces for design teams. The current paper comes from a study of multimodal communication within small educational design teams. The paper reports a microanalysis of a design team meeting in which the participants reached shared understanding while discussing complex ideas using a range of communicative modes. Gestures played an important coordinating role in this communication process and they are the focus of the paper. Some subtle aspects of intra-team communication may be taken for granted in face-to-face settings and then prove problematic when technological links fail to support a key communications modality.

Keywords

design activity

educational design

gestures

teamwork

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  Corresponding author: Dewa Wardak

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