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ERIC Number: EJ525470
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0954-0253
"Best Friends": A Case-Study of Girls' Reactions to an Intervention Designed to Foster Collaborative Group Work.
Quicke, John; Winter, Christine
Gender and Education, v7 n3 p259-81 Oct 1995
Explores how two high-achieving adolescent girls reacted to a teaching intervention designed to foster collaborative group work focusing on aspects of their cultural practices in interpersonal relationships. They were primarily influenced by a competitive individualized ideology, not appropriate for the project, but not deviant from the school's values. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Competition, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Background, Females, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Group Instruction, High Achievement, Ideology, Intervention, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Values
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England
Note: Research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council.