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Nelson, Charles W. – Contemporary Education, 1980
Small group inquiry changes the leadership role of the teacher to create an open classroom and focus on the social and intellectual development of the student as a future thinking and adaptive citizen, not just a reluctant member of an audience for specialized information. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Dynamics, Self Directed Groups
DuFrene, Debbie D.; Lehman, Carol M. – 1996
This paper suggests methods for incorporating cooperative learning into the college classroom, including both short-term and long-term activities. It stresses the importance of self-directed work teams in the work environment and the contribution of cooperative learning in the college classroom to building team work skills. Cooperative learning is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Educational Methods, Group Activities
Chang, Gen Ling; Wells, Gordon – 1987
Noting that collaboration can enhance children's ability to solve problems of increasing difficulty, this paper discusses the theory of collaborative talk in the classroom and how it can be applied. The first section of the paper introduces the notion of collaborative talk by describing a classroom setting and offering an excerpt of two children…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation
Centre County Vocational-Technical School, Pleasant Gap, PA. CIU 10 Bi-County Development Center for Adults. – 1994
This document includes a final report and curriculum manual from a project to help adult educators teach team training by developing a curriculum for use in teaching teamwork skills in work force literacy programs and by providing two half-day seminars to assist adult educators with effectively using the curriculum. The manual for work force…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Johnson, David W.; And Others – 1991
This monograph explores the current use in higher education of cooperative learning, the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning. The opening section sets out to define cooperative learning, and to look at the history of the technique, its basic elements, types of cooperative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Competition, Cooperative Learning