Student Centered Cooperative Learning Linking Concepts in Education to Promote Student Learning /

• Main Authors: Jacobs, George M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Renandya, Willy A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Learning.; Instruction.; Teaching.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.

This book helps teachers understand the links between cooperative learning (also known as collaborative learning and peer learning) and other student-centered approaches. It discusses cooperative learning and communities of practice; cooperative learning and neuroscience; cooperative learning and cr...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Student Centered Cooperative Learning: An Introduction
• 2 Communities in Support of Learning
• 3 Neuroscience and What it tells us about Education
• 4 Thinking Skills
• 5 Alternative Assessment
• 6 Personality Variation: The case of introversion, ambiversion, and extroversion
• 7 Multiple Intelligences
• 8 Positive Education: A new way to look at learning
• 9 Justice: How education can promote it
• 10 Conclusion.