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Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning, 5/E
David R. Johnson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Roger T. Johnson, both of University of Minnesota

ISBN-10: 0205287719
ISBN-13: 9780205287710

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 1999
Format: Paper; 272 pp
Published: 10/01/1998

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Learning Together and Alone remains the most comprehensive cooperative learning text available for educators. The authors, well-known for their research in the field, continue to present cooperative learning in its broad spectrum, highlighting different approaches any teacher can use. They uniquely integrate cooperative learning with competitive and individualistic learning by providing guidelines for when and how to use specific approaches. In addition, the authors provide guidelines for managing critical issues such as teaching social skills, assessing competencies and involvement, and resolving conflict among group members.

  • The only book in which appropriate use of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning is described. First, each type is clearly defined. Second, the advantages and disadvantages of each are covered. Third, the research is analyzed to illuminate the conditions under which each should be used.
  • The first book to detail how cooperative learning may be used with the new assessment formats and practices (Ch. 7).
  • More involvement for the reader as well as greater ease in cross-referencing due to the following formative attributes:

    • Chapter Introductions

    • Vignettes

    • In-Chapter Exercises

    • Experimental Exercises

    • Boxed Material

    • Chapter Summaries

    • Charts

    • Graphs

    • Photos

    • Line Art and Illustration

    • Bibliography

    • Glossary

    • General Index

  • Updated and restructured chapters on the methods and reasons for using the three types of cooperative learning (formal cooperative learning, informal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups).
  • New coverage throughout the book is given to strategies and procedures teachers need to implement to educate at-risk students, to create a multicultural classroom, and to intellectually challenge gifted students.



Preface.


 1.Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning.


 2.Cooperative Learning.


 3.Informal Cooperative Learning.


 4.Cooperative Base Groups.


 5.Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning.


 6.Integrated Use of All Types of Cooperative Learning.


 7.Assessment and Evaluation.


 8.Structuring Competitive Learning.


 9.Structuring Individualistic Learning.


10.Integrated Use of Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning.


11.Reflections.


Glossary.


References.


Index.

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