Abstract
AbstractThrough cooperation between researchers and teachers, the educational experiment creates optimal conditions for the development of the participating children, as well as the professional development of teachers. However, how researchers can virtually collaborate in conducting an educational experiment while maintaining their dual roles as participants and researchers is less understood. In order to address this problem, this chapter provides an effective methodological approach by showcasing how two researchers in two countries used digital technology as a relational tool to conduct educational experiments. A dialectical relationship between the research fairy who joined via Zoom and the imaginary situation is established, helping maintain the researcher’s participating role. Additionally, digital technology helped two researchers develop dialectical relationships through mutual conversation, which enhanced theoretical problem-solving through the knowing and re-knowing process in the educational experiment. This multi-layered dialectical relationship was synthesised as a unity and created a new way of collaboration between researchers and participants in the cultural-historical educational experiment.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland