Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence and the Authority of Knowledge - Softcover

Bruffee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801852323 ISBN 13: 9780801852329

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This work offers a model for learning that accounts for new ways of thinking about how we learn and do research, proposing that knowledge is "constructed through negotiation with others" in communities of knowledgeable peers. It argues that this new understanding of learning as an interdependent, collaborative enterprise is a central issue for college and university education today.

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Review

"Collaborative Learning is an important book. One of my longstanding complaints has been that most of the theories so widely quoted by scholars today have not been examined in light of their pedagogical implications. Bruffee has done that; we all need to do that."

(Pat Belanoff Journal of Higher Education)

From the Back Cover

In Collaborative Learning, Kenneth Bruffee offers a compelling new model for thinking about how we teach, learn, and do research. Proposing that knowledge is 'constructed through negotiation with others' in communities of peers, Bruffee argues that understanding the learning process as an interdependent, collaborative enterprise is essential for today's college and university educators.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801852323
• ISBN 13: 9780801852329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256