· 2018· Book chapter
Guided, Cooperative Learning and Individual Knowledge Acquisition
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- 2018year
Short summary
Cooperative learning settings, which emphasize social interaction and mutual support, can be internalized by children to foster independent cognitive development and the acquisition of complex reasoning skills.
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Key points
- Cooperative learning emphasizes social interaction and mutual support as alternatives to traditional classroom structures.
- The social aspects of cooperative learning, such as support and conflict, can be internalized by children for independent cognition.
- Systematic instruction, exemplified by reciprocal teaching, may help children acquire complex argument rules.
- Theories of cognitive development vary, with some positing self-directed learning and others emphasizing a social genesis for conceptual development.
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Abstract
This chapter discusses theoretical claims concerning a variety of group–learning procedures and the evidence for the efficacy. Learning is a term with more meanings than there are theorists; however, most would agree on some basic distinctions. In the extreme, the position holds that all "meaningful" conceptual change is self–directs. The opposite extreme from theories of self–directed learning are theories of cognitive development that emphasize other–direction almost exclusively. According to such theories, conceptual development has an essentially social genesis. The term, cooperative learning, is most closely associated with research in educational psychology concerned with alternatives to traditional classroom organizational structure. The support and conflict aspects of cooperative learning settings can be gradually removed from the social plane as they are individualized, internalized, or adopted as independent cognition. It remains to be seen whether children can also benefit from systematic instruction, such as a form of reciprocal teaching, in which modeling and support is given for the acquisition of complex argument rules.
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Field: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Developmental and Educational PsychologyPsychology