- Title
- Making a difference by embracing cooperative learning practices in an alternate setting: an exciting combination to incite the educational imagination
- Creator
- Dyson, Michael; Plunkett, Margaret
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/55744
- Identifier
- vital:6008
- Identifier
- ISSN:0749-4025
- Abstract
- This paper outlines a study of an alternate approach to educating Year 9 students in a residential setting. The School for Student Leadership (SSL) in Victoria, Australia, provides a nine-week program focusing on leadership, relationship-building and self-awareness. The philosophy of the school, which has continually evolved since its inception in 2000, appears to have strong connections with the principles of cooperative learning, while also being influenced by theories relating to experiential and service learning and adolescent leadership development. A mixed methods approach was used to collect data through surveys and focus group interviews relating to student perceptions of their educational experience at the SSL. The qualitative findings presented in this paper suggest that all five elements of cooperative learning, as theorized by Johnson and Johnson (1989; 2009), feature in students' discussions of their experiences and that cooperative learning within this context provides a unique platform for the development of positive attitudes toward learning and engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Relation
- Journal of Classroom Interaction Vol. 47, no. 2 (2012), p. 13-24
- Rights
- Copyright University of Houston
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Group work in education; Student leadership; Service learning; Experiental learning; Student participation
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