EDUF2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cognitive Restructuring, The Co-Operative Group, Competitive Learning
13 Aug 2019
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Lecture outline: principles of cooperative learning, structuring cooperative learning, planning for coperative learning, establishing cooperative learning. Four major theoretical perspectives (slavin, 2012: motivationalist, task motivation is the single most influential part of the learning process (other processes still occur, but are driven by an individual motivated self-interest). For example, in a situation where a concept is elaborated (students explaining things to others), both the person providing the elaborated explanation and the recipient benefit cognitively (learning through teaching). By explaining your thinking through a problem you trigger metacognitive awareness. Cooperative goal structure (rather than competitive or individualistic) Task is organised to require cooperation for completion. Leads to social cohesion (this is also called means interdependence. Outcomes interdependence refers to the the groups interdependent efforts to achieve a goal) Using language to negotiate understanding and meaning. Close physical proximity (shared attention, body language etc) Individual responsibility to the group (accomplishing a required task) Sometimes called the reward structure of group learning.
