Group Work in the Primary Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780415036313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 205 str.

Maurice Galton; John Williamson

Opis

Group work is generally accepted as part of the educational ideology of today's primary classrooms. It can, however, mean almost anything from group seating as a technique of classroom management to fully collaborative learning. The authors start from the position that getting children to work together is time-consuming and not easy and that teachers need some assurance that it is worthwhile. Drawing on the work of Vygotsky they look at the importance of collaboration in the development of higher mental functions and also discuss the social and emotional advantages that children can derive from working together. Also using case studies derived from the ORACLE II group work project at Leicester, the authors also take into account the advances made in collaborative group work in other countries. The result is a set of guidelines from which individual teachers can derive policies suitable for the circumstances in their own schools.

Recenzje

`A new book from Maurice Galton and one or more of the regular co-authors is always eagerly awaited. They rarley disappoint. Group Work in the Primary Classroom measures up well. It is a characteristically practical and entertaining book which contrives to challenge, provoke and inform in roughly equal measure.' - Dr Phil Hegarty, Faculty of Teacher Education and Training, Lancaster University - Dec 92

`This book covers a wide range of issues related to group work in the primary classroom and is written in a direct and non-fussy way that will be appreciated by teachers.' - Sue Billet, NUT Education Review - Autumn 1992

Spis treści

Preface 1 GROUPING AND GROUP WORK 2 GROUP WORK AND TASK COMPLETION: THE RESEARCH EVIDENCE 3 GROUP WORK IN THE ORACLE STUDY: THE PUPILS’ PERSPECTIVE 4 A TALE OF TWO TEACHERS: INITIAL ENCOUNTERS 5 A TALE OF TWO TEACHERS: FACILITATING COLLABORATION 6 GROUP WORK: FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY 7 BEGINNING AND MAINTAINING GROUP WORK 8 CHANGING CLASSROOM PRACTICE

O autorze

Professor Maurice Galton is Director of the School of Education, University of Leicester. His research, beginning with the ORACLE project, has embraced all aspects of primary education and he was one of the first university professors to return to the school classroom to acquire recent and relevant teaching experience. His publications include Inside the Primary Classroom, and Curriculum Provision in the Small Primary School. John Williamson is Head of the School of Teaching Studies at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth. Western Australia.