ERIC Number: EJ745252
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 4
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Concrescent Conversations: Generating a Cooperative Learning Experience in Principles of Management--A Postmodern Analysis
Akan, Obasi Haki
Journal of Education for Business, v80 n4 p214-217 Mar-Apr 2005
By taking a postmodern ontology that elevates becoming over the modern ontology of being, the author of this article proposes a theory and describes a method that teachers can use to enhance students' cooperative learning of management principles. The author asserts that the social construction of learning groups is an effect of organizing micropractices embedded in a special type of talk, referred to as "concrescent conversation." The author offers an instructor's guide for generating concrescent conversation or disclosing, questioning, and steering verbal behaviors that facilitate students' cooperative learning of management principles.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Learning Experience, Postmodernism, Business Administration Education, Teaching Guides, Verbal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Group Activities, Higher Education, Administrative Principles, Educational Theories, Constructivism (Learning), Questioning Techniques
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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