Cooperative learning incorporates ideas, principles and treatments which stem from a number of areas of pedagogical and psychological theory and practice, and which are most often reduced to four essential effects in ...

This paper gives a review of a few research studies dealing with effects of the cooperative learning on the prosocial conscience and the prosocial behavior of students, as well as on variables considered as basic ones for ...

Cooperative learning, as an old idea in education, became again the subject of interest in the seventies. In teaching tradition this movement served as the main approach to the studies of pupils interaction in the classroom. ...

The paper considers basic ideas of Piaget and Vigotsky about the role of peer interaction in student cognitive development. Although both authors attribute great importance to the role played by the social world in cognitive ...