Can I read Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms (SUNY series, The Social Context of Education) on EtoBox?

Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms (SUNY series, The Social Context of Education) by Jacob, Evelyn is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cooperative Learning in Context: An Educational Innovation in Everyday Classrooms (SUNY series, The Social Context of Education) about?

Explains why powerful educational innovations like'cooperative learning'do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms.Cooperative Learning in Context examines the real-world implications of cooperative learning techniques used in a culturally diverse, suburban elementary school fourth grade mathematics class and sixth grade social studies class. Evelyn Jacob takes an anthropologist's eye to document not just the successes, but also the failures and missed opportunities exhibited by the participating teachers and students. Six interwoven contextual aspects that affect teaching and learning are explored: task structure, psychological and technical tools, interpersonal interactions and social relationships, individual and social meanings, local cultures and institutions, and larger cultures and institutions. In exploring the implications of the study, Jacob discusses how an understanding of contextual features can enable educators to improve the processes and outcomes of cooperative learning and other powerful educational innovations.Evelyn Jacob is Professor of Education at George Mason University. She is coeditor with Cathie Jordan of Minority Education: Anthropolo

Author

Jacob, Evelyn

Publisher

State University of New York Press, CUP Services, Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14861 ($16.95)

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585310527

Subjects

Education