This research is based on the understanding of learning as joint production of knowledge that is made public as participants deal with an object that emerges from their activities (ABELEDO, 2008). We analyze a segment of interaction in which researchers of an engineering laboratory produce knowledge together. In this segment, it is argued that participants, through their actions, relativize two components of this production that do not appear in Abeledo’s definition (based on a school setting): (i) the production of an advance for the progress of the concrete activities in which they are engaged and (ii) the satisfaction of the participants with what they have built together. The description contributes with a discussion on the ways of organizing and promoting instances of joint production of knowledge in the classroom through concrete tasks that guide and mobilize participants around a common enterprise.
learning; talk-in-interaction; joint production of knowledge; classroom interaction
