What are the 4Cs?
What is Collaboration?
Collaboration
Through collaboration, humans become their fuller selves.
Through the mutuality of true collaboration we expand who we are.
To achieve such beneficial mutuality, however, requires the navigation of complex dynamics in communication and relationships.
True collaboration is not people co-operating, sharing ideas and working together - it is the beneficial mutuality of a shared vision, and the engine for creativity and emergence.
The Collaboration Circles
In the Creativity Cascade coherence maker, “creativity learning is imagined as a metaphorical cascade with four stages (or pools) that support high-quality learning. We are using the metaphor of the cascade because it suggests a process where one body of water (or understanding) falls (with gravitational force and disciplined but varied form) into the next and into the next. The cascade does not work unless the water flows from one part to the next.”
Transforming Education, Pg 75
How to teach and support Collaboration
in classrooms, staff rooms and school communities
In their book Transforming Schools, Jefferson and Anderson discuss the struggle in education to teach Collaboration.
“The lone genius propelling human development forward is a myth. It is the ‘genius of the group’ that generates new learning, creativity and innovation.”