Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse

By R. Sawyer. 2001

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Educating for innovation (2006, background): “Improvisation is a conversational skill (Sawyer, 2001), and like other social and interactional skills, it can be taught.”
Distributed creativity: How collective creations emerge from collaboration. (2009, background): “…increased contingency and decreased explanatory power of individual variables—hold true for a wide range of groups, from business teams engaged in brainstorming (Paulus & Nijstad, 2003; Sawyer, 2003a), to musical ensembles (Berliner, 1994), to friends engaged in small talk (Sawyer, 2001).”
The Seeds of Time: Why Classroom Dialogue Needs a Temporal Analysis (2008, unknown): “…and the social—so that we do not treat the cultural context of educational activity as static and given, but explain how it is sustained and renewed through the creative activities of people in conversation and embodied in the products of joint intellectual endeavor (cf. Sawyer, 2001).”
Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation (2004, background): “Recent studies of group creativity (John-Steiner, 2000; Sawyer, 2003b) and of creative conversation (Sawyer, 2001, 2003c) could contribute to this recent line of educational research.”
Collective Mathematical Understanding as Improvisation (2006, background): “For there to exist the opportunity for a range of possible pathways, it is vital that each participant follows what Sawyer (2001a) called the “Second Rule of Improv: Don’t Write the Script in Your Head” (p. 17).”