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David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec. An overview of cooperative learning. The essential components of successful cooperative learning, the teacher's role, and the teaching of social skills to students are all covered. Cooperation among teachers is also discussed. An excellent introduction to cooperative learning. -- Publisher.
In this concise book, David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Johnson Holubec reinforce the cooperative learning theories found in Circles of Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom and expand those theories to include the school and school district. Offering a thorough description of cooperative learning and the research behind it, the authors explain how cooperative learning can be implemented in the classroom and why cooperation must pervade schooling at every level. They discuss not only formal cooperative learning but also informal cooperative learning, cooperative base groups, and cooperative structures. They emphasize that cooperation is more than a seating arrangement, that educators must ...
The book is addressed to classroom teachers interested in beginning to use cooperative learning or increasing the quality of their current efforts.
David & Roger Johnson & Edythe Holubec. A practical step-by-step guide to the teacher's role in using cooperative learning. Contains easy-to-follow procedures for planning and conducting cooperative lessons. This user-friendly state-of-the-art book emphasizes mnemonics, illustrations, and a thumb index. The wide variety of ideas and activities will be helpful to teachers at all levels of education. -- Publisher.
This book presents articles from 25 concerned teachers and professors explaining why and how they integrate inquiry into troubling social issues with the study of language and literature and make it the subject of discussion and writing-to-learn activities. The titles and authors of the 19 contributions to the book are: (1) "Educating for the Development of Social Consciousness and Social Responsibility" (Samuel Totten); (2) "Dismantling White/Male Supremacy" (Doris Davenport); (3) Dealing with Conflict: A Structured Cooperative Controversy Procedure" (Edythe Johnson Holubec and others); (4) "Cultivating Vision: The Believing Game" (Alan Shapiro); (5) "Learning To Be at Home: Oral Histories ...
A succinct look at cooperative learning and the research behind it, including practical ways to implement it in the classroom and why schoolwide cooperation matters.