Guiding intent participation at an art crating company

This paper presents the theoretical concept of guiding intent participation. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective of learning and analytically guided by methods of multimodal and interaction analysis, guiding intent participation is a distinct category of guided participation (Kirshner, 2008; Rogoff, 1995). Guiding intent participation takes as relevant both the coordinated efforts of oldtimers and relative newcomers to make contributions to ongoing work and learning, as well as the observational activities by the oldtimers that are precursors to guidance. The analytic implications of the concept in support of rethinking assessment to consider social context are discussed.