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Jacobs, George – Online Submission, 2014
I was interested in reviewing Susan Cain's (2013) "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" for two reasons. First, as an introvert I wanted to learn more about myself. Second, I wanted to explore Cain and others' criticism that group activities in the workplace and in education are unfair to introverts. This…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Cooperative Learning, Nonfiction, Definitions
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John-Steiner, Vera; Weber, Robert J.; Minnis, Michele – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
Suggests that, by looking for commonalities and differences across settings, tasks, working methods, goals, and values, a framework for understanding collaboration can be constructed that preserves the benefits of rich descriptive accounts of collaboration. Emphasizes the importance of multiple definitions and multiple models of collaborative…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Models, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Gallagher, Arlene F., Ed. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1990
Briefly reviews children's literature on the themes of cooperative learning, community cooperation, interdependence, and putting the social back into social studies. Summarizes three books for primary readers, four for intermediate grades, and three for young adults. Covers a wide variety of cooperative learning situations. (CH)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Community Cooperation, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
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Clark, Caroline; Herter, Roberta J.; Moss, Pamela A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1998
Discusses ways in which the dialectic between differing approaches to studying, theorizing, and representing collaboration may illuminate issues related to the nature and scope of scholarly inquiry. Contains 15 references. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Models, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Luttrell, Wendy – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1998
Explores the analogy of the researcher as fortune teller and the parallels between research histories and horoscopes and discusses the tension between what the subject is and what he or she is imagined to be by others. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Research, Ethnography, Personal Narratives
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Mendelson, Michael – Journal of Education, 1997
Reviews the method and practice taught in Cicero's "De Oratore," which is explicitly designed to allow for the comparative estimate of competing positions and represents an effort to find the possible basis for cooperative action in any controversy. Implications are drawn for contemporary teaching. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Cooperation, Educational Practices, Latin Literature
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Strain, Michael – Educational Management & Administration, 1994
In this review symposium on Andy Hargreaves's book "Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age" (1994), Strain questions Hargreaves's treatment of modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity and his materialistic, functionalist view of history and social change. Wong applauds Hargreaves' analysis…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Modernism