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ERIC Number: EJ987100
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 13
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-0633
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Creating Learning Communities in the Classroom
Saville, Bryan K.; Lawrence, Natalie Kerr; Jakobsen, Krisztina V.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n132 p57-69 Win 2012
There are many ways to construct classroom-based learning communities. Nevertheless, the emphasis is always on cooperative learning. In this article, the authors focus on three teaching methods--interteaching, team-based learning, and cooperative learning in large, lecture-based courses--that they have used successfully to create classroom-based learning communities in their psychology classes at James Madison University. Interteaching creates a total-classroom learning community. Team-based learning, in contrast, creates within-classroom communities but also provides the opportunity to create a total-classroom community. Finally, cooperative learning in lecture-based courses creates within-classroom learning communities. Although each of these methods is unique on the surface and in terms of its philosophical underpinnings, each capitalizes on the benefits of cooperative learning and provides a way for instructors to create learning communities in their classrooms.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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