Ebook: Cooperative Learning in Context : An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms
Author: Evelyn Jacob
- Tags: Group work in education -- United States -- Case studies., Team learning approach in education -- United States -- Case studies., Effective teaching -- United States -- Case studies., Educational change -- United States -- Case studies.
- Series: SUNY Series the Social Context of Education Ser.
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- City: Albany, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Explains why powerful educational innovations like "cooperative learning" do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms.Cooperative Learning in Context examines the real-world implications of cooperative learning techniques used in a culturally diverse, suburban elementary school fourth grade mathematics class and sixth grade social studies class. Evelyn Jacob takes an anthropologist's eye to document not just the successes, but also the failures and missed opportunities exhibited by the participating teachers and students. Six interwoven contextual aspects that affect teaching and learning are explored: task structure, psychological and technical tools, interpersonal interactions and social relationships, individual and social meanings, local cultures and institutions, and larger cultures and institutions. In exploring the implications of the study, Jacob discusses how an understanding of contextual features can enable educators to improve the processes and outcomes of cooperative learning and other powerful educational innovations.Evelyn Jacob is Professor of Education at George Mason University. She is coeditor with Cathie Jordan of Minority Education: Anthropological Perspectives.
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