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A Systematic Review of Complex Instruction in the United States
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Anthony Muro Villa III; Quentin C. Sedlacek – Intercultural Education, 2025
Complex Instruction (CI) is a set of principles and practices for designing and facilitating equitable groupwork. Originally developed to advance racial equity in United States primary schools, CI is now used to support students of many ages across many disciplines. We report on a systematic review of CI-focused research in the U.S. up to the year…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Teaching Methods, Educational Sociology, Heterogeneous Grouping
Implementing Complex Instruction in Germany -- Relevant Principles, Contextual Considerations, and First Steps
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Christine Schmalenbach; Winnie-Karen Giera; Daniela Niesta Kayser; Simone Plöger – Intercultural Education, 2025
The present contribution illuminates the initial developments in the adoption of Complex Instruction in Germany, where the implementation of the approach has just begun. It gives insights into a teacher education project, a theatre project, and a planned project at secondary schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Educational Principles
Multilingual Cooperative Activities for Classroom Social Climate in Heterogeneous Contexts
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Céline Buchs – Intercultural Education, 2025
The study (N = 92) piloted an inclusive programme taking advantage of linguistic diversity in regular primary classrooms in Geneva (Switzerland) to reinforce classroom social climate. The same three-stages programme (activities for opening to others, activities for opening to linguistic diversity, and multilingual cooperative activities) was…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Class Activities