Roots of Cooperative Learning in General Education

This chapter presents a basic overview about psychological theories that are foundational to cooperative learning: social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, and motivational theories. In so doing, our purpose is to acquaint readers with aspects of theo...

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Main Authors Jacobs, George M, McCafferty, Steven G, Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 2006
Subjects
Cognitive Psychology
Communities of Practice
Cooperative Learning
Developmental Psychology
General Education
Global Education
Humanism
Learning Motivation
Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Second Language Instruction
Social Psychology
Theories
Theory Practice Relationship
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Summary:This chapter presents a basic overview about psychological theories that are foundational to cooperative learning: social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, and motivational theories. In so doing, our purpose is to acquaint readers with aspects of theory and research that may be helpful to teachers in understanding the historical development of cooperative learning and its significance to the teaching of a second language. [This article was published in "Cooperative Learning and Second Language Teaching," p9-17 2006.]