Social Skills Cooperative Learning
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Johnson’s (1997) action research study investigates how social skills can be developed in fifth and sixth grade students through the use of cooperative learning. Johnson is a teacher who advocates an interactionist approach between students and teachers in the classroom. In this manner he feels that by including students in the creation of rules and consequences, “it helps students to learn they are responsible for making the choices which determine their behavior and that they must therefore accept the consequences” (Johnson 7). Johnson also believes in a supportive classroom environment as opposed to the authoritarian classroom environment. In such an environment students are encouraged to take risks in their learning in an atmosphere of “cooperation and shared learning” (Johnson 19).Such an environment is ideal for Johnson’s action research which studied pairs of 5th and 6th graders who carried out various computer implementation tasks with the goal of achieving social skill development. A variety of tasks included sharing, taking turn
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