Joining the Global Research Community : Japanese High School Students and Scientific Networks of Collaboration = グローバルな研究コミュニティへの参加 : 国際交流、日本の高校生、科学的協力ネットワーク

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Scientific knowledge is discovered by teams of researchers, often working across the globe. Researchers need to master the social dynamics of forming collaborative networks. The current study examines the use of social network analysis to train Japanese and European high school students to form collaborative networks with intentionality. While collaborating on science projects, the students were taught how to utilise social media tools from a network perspective to form collaborative networks. After the students met in Europe, a corpus analysis of the Japanese participants’ learning diaries and recollections were compared to a control sample of another group who participated in a similar program but without the network workshop. Analysis confirmed that the group who received the training demonstrated a higher level of understanding of the project, greater feelings of competency, and a deeper insight into how to interact in a multicultural environment than did the control sample.

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