The key strategy for changing the student's role from passive to active is cooperative learning.
In cooperative learning situations, students work in small groups to achieve a shared set of …

We have written this book with an eye and ear toward a variety of audiences, ranging from
practitioners and professionals to researchers like ourselves. The vantage point from which …

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 …

The widespread and increasing use of cooperative learning is one of the great success
stories of social and educational psychology. Its success largely rests on the relationships …

This book is about competition, cooperation, and individualistic effort, and gives you, the
teacher, an easier, more productive, and more enjoyable approach to teaching by …

Cooperative learning is one of the most widespread and fruitful areas of theory, research, and
practice in education. Reviews of the research, however, have focused either on the entire …

Educators, researchers, and policy makers have advocated student involvement for some
time as an essential aspect of meaningful learning. In the past twenty years engineering …

President Obama's first address to Congress signaled a shift in educational priorities. He
committed his administration to ending the dropout crisis in the nation's public high schools and …

This book is designed to provide the theory and experiences necessary to develop effective
interpersonal skills. Each chapter begins with an introduction and explanation of the …

Our original reasons for writing" Joining Together" included introducing readers to both the (1)
theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective and (2) …