The thoughts behind Mediated interaction
- The pupil is ‘the director’
- The pupil himself decides on the steps of his learning process
- He himself is responsible for this process and by being a part of the team he himself acts upon it
- The interaction is focussed on the learning- and development process of the pupil (emancipation)
- The interaction focuses as much as possible on using and expanding the (natural) networks from the pupil
- (integration)
- Pupil and teacher have a shared/joint idea on the knowledge and skills of the pupil
- The interaction focuses on making what’s learned available for others
Starting points of Mediated interaction
- Starts with making contact/connect
- Has to affiliate…….
- Is based on trust and the willingness to takes risks
- Is goal-orientated, has focus
- Is based on equivalence; functioning as a team
- Demands of both a (self) reflective attitude
- Comes to a shared analysis on the basis of reciprocal adequacy
- Mediation is
- is a reciprocal process
- is an approach based on questions
- is focussed on transfer of feelings of competence
- invites each member to think ‘one step further’
- takes into account the social-emotional development
- is focussed on developing cognitive and meta-cognitive functions
- adheres to the criteria for a qualitive interaction: the mediation characteristics