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EDITORS PROOF JrnlID 11412_ArtID 9141_Proof# 1 - 10/02/2012 Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning DOI 10.1007/s11412-012-9141-4 1 3 2 An instrumental perspective on CSCL systems 4 Jacques Lonchamp 5 F Received: 21 July 2011 /Accepted: 18 January 2012 O 6 # International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.; Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 7 O R 8 Abstract The theory of instrumental genesis of Rabardel relates the social and the technical 9 P through the concept of instrument. An instrument is defined as a mixed entity made up by an 10 artifact, the technical/material part, and a set of utilization schemes, the social/behavioural part, 11 which both result from users’ constructive activities. This theory is not dedicated to learning 12 D contexts, but it can help illuminate many aspects of instrument-mediated collaborative learning 13 E situations and CSCL systems. In the first part of this article, the foundational concepts of 14