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Collaborative learning : higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge

Title
  1. Collaborative learning : higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge / Kenneth A. Bruffee.
Published by
  1. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Bruffee, Kenneth A.

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Description
  1. xxiv, 319 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Advocates a far-reaching change in the relations between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning.
Subject
  1. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  2. Group work in education > United States
  3. College teaching > United States
  4. Team learning approach in education > United States
  5. Education > United States > Experimental methods
  6. Social groups
  7. Learning
  8. Teaching
  9. Universities and colleges
  10. Group Processes
  11. Cooperative Behavior
  12. Learning
  13. Teaching
  14. Universities
  15. Education
  16. teaching
  17. colleges (institutions)
  18. universities (institutions)
  19. Universities and colleges
  20. Social groups
  21. College teaching
  22. Education > Experimental methods
  23. Group work in education
  24. Team learning approach in education
  25. College
  26. Gruppenunterricht
  27. Höheres Bildungswesen
  28. Kooperation
  29. Lernen
  30. Lerngruppe
  31. Lerntechnik
  32. United States
Contents
  1. Collaborative learning : what it is and what it's about. Collaboration, conversation, and reacculturation ; Consensus groups : one kind of classroom collaboration ; Writing and collaboration ; Toward reconstructing American classrooms ; Collaborative learning and cooperative learning ; Peer tutoring and institutional change ; Collaborative learning and computers -- Higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge. Education as conversation ; The authority of college and university professors ; Science and engineering in a poststructural world ; The procrustean bed of cognitive thought ; A plurality of forces, desires, and not wholly commensurable visions ; Reading literature as common property ; A nonfoundational curriculum ; Collaborative learning and the collaboratively learned : a postscript on graduate education -- Appendix A : classroom and laboratory design -- Appendix B : research on collaborative learning ; Appendix C : some notes on nesting.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-309) and index.