Sociocognitive conflict and intersubjectivity: analysis of verbal interactions in collaborative learning

This paper aims to study the sociocognitive interaction looking specifically identify the presence of three types of conflict: social, implicit sociocognitive conflict and explicit sociocognitive. For this purpose there were constituted two groups of 12 dyads each one belonging to two different disciplines: Psychology and Physic. These dyads had to learn collaboratively an academic text. The interactions were recorded, allowing a comprehensive analysis of verbalization. The analysis focused on identifying within a peer discourse the presence of these three types of conflict and detects a possible difference between both disciplines. The results show that while in Psychology is a typology that distinguishes dyads with a predominance of social conflict to the detriment of intersubjectivity, in Physics this sub-typology does not exist, the pattern is relatively uniform over all the dyads with a predominance of sociocognitive expanded conflict, a decrease of the social conflict and an increase of the sociocognitive conflict.