"Cooperative Games in Education" is the first comprehensive guide to the world of cooperative play and games for pre-K-12 learning. It includes a thorough pedagogical rationale and guidelines for practice, a survey of related research and scholarship, engaging anecdotes, illustrations, historical background, and an array of sample games…

In the past quarter-century, charter schools have grown from a ragtag insurgency into a serious force in American K-12 education, serving as the public education provider for nearly three million children across the country. But this nationwide growth has spread unevenly across U.S. cities. In most places, urban districts have successfully…

Collaboration is increasingly identified as an important educational outcome, and most models of twenty-first-century skills include collaboration as a key skill (e.g., Griffin, McGaw, & Care, 2012; Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012; OECD PISA Collaborative Problem Solving Expert Working Group, 2013; Trilling & Fadel, 2009). Such widespread…

Commonly included in any list of 21st century skills is collaboration--and for good reason. Technology now offers more people the opportunity to work together without geographical restraint. And so collaboration should become a greater part of school curricula at all levels. But most of the work done by students in a traditional K-12 school is…

The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Math and Science Partnership Program (MSP) promotes the development, implementation, and sustainability of exemplary partnerships to produce high-quality math and science education at all K-12 levels. The MSP Program anticipates that the partnerships will be instrumental in improving student achievement,…

Schools hoping to become communities must be sensitive to subcommunities serving as building blocks for the supracommunity. Cooperation/competition is a system for increasing effective subcommunities in schools and simultaneously increasing these groups' support for school goals (assisting the school's academic program). This article explains the…

Describes a collaborative project in which art educators and architects worked together to design a space for educational programs in a museum. Discusses differing views about the space as a classroom or an active studio. Concludes that the collaborative experience heightened creativity among the participants and produced a design for a museum…

A staff development process that uses group-building activities to foster staff collegiality is described in this paper. As schools become involved in restructuring, cooperation and positive working relationships become more crucial for effective school teams involved in participative decision making. Five characteristics of group-building…

The article proposes the use of cooperative learning techniques with learning disabled students and suggests ways to implement cooperative learning principles using microcomputers. (DB)

These digests provide information for educators about the nature of cooperation and how cooperative principles can be used to restructure classrooms, administrative hierarchies, and work relationships of all types. Digest 1 describes the competitive, individual, and cooperative interaction patterns and examines the impact of cooperative learning…

The facilitator's manual offers guidelines for conducting a workshop for regular educators which focuses on the following objectives--writing a rationale for mainstream education, describing the various instructional models and the role relationships of personnel within each, describing the characteristics and classifications of special students…

The article describes the application of cooperative group learning strategies with visually handicapped students for promoting and improving student socialization skills and integration with nonhandicapped peers. Cooperative learning is contrasted to individualized and competitive approaches. Specific cooperative learning strategies are…

Discusses how teachers can avoid problems associated with student competition in the classroom. Describes two instructional methods that involve students working together on learning tasks: cooperative learning and peer tutoring. Focuses on Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD), a team-learning approach. Includes a list of practical guides to…

Elementary and high school students participating in a photography project of the PACERS Small Schools Cooperative in Alabama learn photography and photojournalist skills, work as a group in sharing equipment and assisting one another, and apply math and chemistry skills in the darkroom. Instructions for making a pinhole camera are included. (CDS)

Selected literature pertaining to the frequency and effects of competitive and cooperative classroom situations among different age groups is analyzed and summarized focusing on student and teacher attitudes, the influence of teacher attitudes, the need for cooperation, and teacher selection of goal structure. (JMF)