Cooperative Learning in the Social Studies Classroom (National Council for the Social Studies)

Edited by Robert J. Stahl, Ronald L. VanSickle and Nancy N. Stahl NCSS Bulletin No. 108, 130pp. 2009 This volume will help the reader reflect upon the gains that students and social studies educators can make by rejecting many of the old myths surrounding the value of competitive and rugged individualism and replacing these with a cooperative perspective on learning. What can we gain by having students work cooperatively in small groups rather than spending much of their time doing their academic work alone? What evidence is available that social studies students achieve more by working together cooperatively than by working alone or by competing for a limited number of rewards? What instructional alternatives might enable more of our students to achieve the goals we set? What might a teacher gain by using cooperative learning groups as an alternative to conventional individualistic and competitive instructional strategies? These and countless more questions are answered in the pages of this new, updated edition of an NCSS classic. Author(s):Stahl, Robert Stahl, Nancy Vansickle, Ronald