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Collaborative learning : higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge

Title: Collaborative learning : higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge / Kenneth A. Bruffee.
Author: Bruffee, Kenneth A.
Publication: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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Description

xxiv, 319 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Advocates a far-reaching change in the relations between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-309) and index.

Contents

Collaborative learning : what it is and what it's about. Collaboration, conversation, and reacculturation ; Consensus groups : one kind of classroom collaboration ; Writing and collaboration ; Toward reconstructing American classrooms ; Collaborative learning and cooperative learning ; Peer tutoring and institutional change ; Collaborative learning and computers -- Higher education, interdependence, and the authority of knowledge. Education as conversation ; The authority of college and university professors ; Science and engineering in a poststructural world ; The procrustean bed of cognitive thought ; A plurality of forces, desires, and not wholly commensurable visions ; Reading literature as common property ; A nonfoundational curriculum ; Collaborative learning and the collaboratively learned : a postscript on graduate education -- Appendix A : classroom and laboratory design -- Appendix B : research on collaborative learning ; Appendix C : some notes on nesting.

ISBN

0801859735
9780801859731
0801859743
9780801859748

LCCN

98075126

OCLC

ocm40600970
40600970
SCSB-568932

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Princeton University Library