Cooperative learning
First, as for the definition of cooperative learning, cooperative learning refers to the mutual learning of students with a clear division of responsibilities in order to complete the common tasks (Brown & Palincsar, 2018). Cooperative learning encourages students to work together for the collective and individual interests, and to realize their ideals in the process of completing common tasks.
Cooperative learning is an organizational form of learning, which corresponds to “individual learning”. Cooperative learning refers to the mutual learning of learners with clear division of responsibilities in order to complete common tasks. Cooperative learning is a social learning model, which is committed to building a learning group. Cooperative learning is usually developed by the groups, and this is the core form. Therefore, cooperative learning is particularly important under the new curriculum system.
Psychologist Schutz believes that everyone has the psychological needs of interpersonal communication, including tolerance needs, control needs and emotional needs (King & Ng, 2018). American psychologist Maslow’s hierarchy of needs believes that when the physiological needs and safety needs are met, people desire to get belonging and love (Hopper, 2020). Learners are eager to establish friendship with partners and hope to be praised by teachers. When the current three needs are basically met, there will be a need for respect and self-realization. In the process of cooperative learning, different personality psychology (such as ability, temperament, character, need, motivation, faith, etc.) with the learning process of understanding process, emotional process, will process, constantly collision and integration. In the cooperation and communication with others, learners learn to build up confidence, learn to respect others, learn how to complete tasks, achieve achievements, maximize their potential, and realize themselves. At the same time, he is eager to gain recognition and attract their attention and appreciation. The establishment of cooperative learning relationship creates a time and space for learners to communicate and cooperate with others, which complies with the psychological needs of students.
Our group explored Finance Management, and through cooperative learning, we explored research issues, task division and blueprint, etc. Cooperative learning has realized the collision of thinking. In the group discussion, we constantly put forward new ideas. At the same time, we help each other and learn from each other when facing difficulties, and improve the learning efficiency.
Reference
Brown, A. L., & Palincsar, A. S. (2018). Guided, cooperative learning and individual knowledge acquisition. In Knowing, learning, and instruction (pp. 393-451). Routledge.
Hopper, E. (2020). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explained. ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 24, 1-3.
King, J., & Ng, K. Y. S. (2018). 9. Teacher Emotions and the Emotional Labour of Second Language Teaching. Language Teacher Psychology, 1.
Hi Lance! Thank you for sharing your ideas on cooperative learning. A couple of things that I have noticed when reading your blog. You mentioned that “Cooperative learning is an organizational form of learning, which corresponds to “individual learning.” It was a bit unclear what you mean by “individual learning” in this context. Collaborative learning is learning with others. I also appreciate that you took the time to research Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; however, its connection to cooperative learning is unclear. To strengthen your blog, you may want to provide some distinctive features of cooperative learning, its benefits and challenges, as well as provide some real classroom examples of activities/strategies. Please also provide appropriate references to the images.