| Popis: |
We came to our interest in cooperative education as anthropologists, used to studying small societies as total systems. Consequently, when we began considering the process of socializing children to behave cooperatively, both in non-Western settings and in Western schools, we again did so from this holistic, anthropological perspective. We are of the opinion that learning in general, but particularly cooperative small-group learning, which involves coordination of effort with others, emerges out of the total social and physical environment within which the person is immersed. This “ecological” perspective guides our work in cooperative education, and in this chapter, we present a theoretical basis for this perspective and outline a program for implementing cooperative learning in a series of sequential steps within a restructured classroom context. |
