Instructors of college/university writing classes commonly ask their students to "share their ideas" in groups. This paper aims to describe the sequential structures of a kind of talk typical to group work: students presenting "reports" about early written drafts. Specifically, the data analysis in this paper looks at how a student's report…

Chicago's South Side has long been a renowned laboratory for groundbreaking research on Black urban life. The city's vast Black population, largely the product of the Great Migration, has made Chicago the home of both a celebrated Black middle class and an unsettling Black lower class. These two extremes have been meticulously documented over the…

Experts say that good mathematics instruction engages all students as active learners (NAEYC & NCTM 2002). It begins with their current skills and builds new knowledge that is meaningful and appropriate for each child (Baroody 1998). Effective math instruction allows children to develop positive attitudes toward math instead of negative ones…

School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators, families, and community groups that value relationship…

Highlighting the issues involved in starting and maintaining a teacher study group, this book provides practical suggestions for organizing, facilitating, and dealing with group dynamics within a study group. It addresses the details that go into making decisions about the time, place, group size, resources, and structure of the meetings, as well…

Forensics programs can be laboratories for small group processes, whether or not they are explicitly recognized by either the participants or their teachers. Small group dynamics, as identified by M. Shaw (1981), are present and clearly define the forensic activity as a small group experience. The combination of being a small group, spending…

In collaborative learning, both facilitators and learners are active participants in the process, a sense of community is created, and knowledge is considered to be located in the community rather than the individual. Its guiding principle is that learning is enhanced when knowledge that is created and transmitted is shaped by the activities and…

This paper describes an on-line computer-based model designed to facilitate the teaching of research methods in undergraduate social psychology courses. The model simulates experimental outcomes data for three dependent variables obtained through the manipulation of a subset of nineteen independent variables reported on studies investigating the…

This study is one of a series having to do with, among other things, the relative impact of informational (or cognitive) versus normative (or motivational) processes on the position an individual takes following group discussion. (Author)

The relationship between group cohesiveness and performance was investigated using data from a field setting. (Editor)

This article includes the script for a playlet which may be used as a group counseling model or as an adjunct to individual consulting. Discussion questions are also included. (Author/HMV)

This article examines a therapeutic community for the rehabilitation of drug addicts run by Marathon House, Inc. (Editor)

Author described an experiment in alternative schooling at Conisbrough. (Editor/RK)

Presents in some detail three so-called generic areas of learning in which the author emphasizes that biological needs, drives and capacities are merely starting points in the acquisition of human knowledge. These interrelated processes are discussed under subtitles: 1) Familial bonding, 2) Institutionalized Education, and 3) Sex-role learning and…

This article discusses the use of games and game theory in education and counseling. A discussion of the functions of games in group counseling is also provided. (Author/EK)