Points out how student cheating illustrates sound principles of teaching and learning, such as negotiation, quality production under time pressure, and collaborative problem solving. (SR)

Discusses the role on conflict and groups and manifestation of conflict in groups. Goes on to suggest strategies for resolving conflict among children. Offers suggestions for leaders of children's groups and suggests techniques for creative conflict applications. List of books and articles relevant to conflict resolution techniques that use…

Discusses reasons why cooperative learning and collaborative writing deserve the attention of business communication teachers. Suggests possible research questions for study. (SR)

Considers some of the difficulties in writing across disciplinary boundaries. Indicates how a dialogic approach to writing will help teachers design writing-across-the-disciplines projects. Provides a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of language and relates these notions to student interdisciplinary writing and teacher response to that writing.…

Challenged by General Motors' creation of the Saturn automobile, St. Paul (Minnesota) educators created a new school by blending the best practices of existing schools with the most powerful and useful emerging technologies. In the Saturn School's learner-centered environment, each student develops a personal growth plan including academic,…

Introduces the topic of student-centered pedagogy as it relates to the college composition classroom. Describes current theories of how to adapt collaborative learning models to the classroom. (HB)

Compares the current use of prose models to those developed by the Greek Sophists. Outlines problems with using professional writing excerpts as examples of rhetorical modes when they were not written as such. Argues that composition texts based on prose models err by implying that all writing fits into modal categories. (HB)

Questions the effectiveness of incorporating collaboration into classrooms and expecting instant results. Discusses the highly individualistic pedagogy that students have already been steeped in. Calls for practical measures and instruction in collaborative skills which will foster collaborative learning. (HB)

Claims that despite the fact that writing research has drawn extensively on cognitive processes, little research has been done to describe the role that the unconscious and emotions play in the writing process. Offers a pedagogy designed to enable students to draw writing energy from the realm of the unconscious. (HB)

Focuses primarily on the cooperative learning model of David and Roger Johnson. Uses a scenario involving cooperative learning strategies in use in an elementary classroom to illustrate key concepts for the classroom teacher. (RS)

Describes three main uses of computers for writing as a social activity: networking, telecommunications, and project work. Examines advantages and disadvantages of teaching writing on a network. Argues that reports in the literature and the example of an English as a foreign language writing class show that project work shares most of the…

Describes what business plans are and how educators can use them in class for a team writing assignment. (RS)

Describes and compares various assumptions of instructional design and of constructivism, some of which have been raised in other articles in this issue. Topics discussed include instructional design theory; instructional systems theory; mental models; categories of knowledge; knowledge representation; instructional strategies; collaborative…

Explores the intersections between feminist methodology and collaborative research to identify flashpoints that might derail attempts at collaboration. Analyzes the personal experiences of the authors in four ongoing collaborative research groups. (HB)

Presents a historical study of the contribution of George Jardine to the field of composition. Considers why Jardine has been omitted from histories of writing instruction. Outlines Jardine's plan for using collaborative learning and peer editing in the classroom. (HB)