Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ551280
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Collaboration and Its Discontents: Steps toward Overcoming Barriers to Successful Group Projects.
Yamane, David
Teaching Sociology, v24 n4 p378-83 Oct 1996
Provides a series of guidelines for overcoming resistance and problems with cooperative projects in an introductory sociology course. These include coordinating common interests and common free time between team members, requiring allocation of various roles (presider, scribe, coordinator), and ongoing monitoring of the research teams. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Independent Study, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation, Learning Strategies, Small Group Instruction, Sociology, Student Projects, Student Research, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods, Teamwork
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners; Researchers; Teachers
Language: English
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