Too Big to Fail: Rethinking Group Work in a Restructured Middle School

Autor/in	Horn, Brian R.
Titel	Too Big to Fail: Rethinking Group Work in a Restructured Middle School
Quelle	In: Voices from the Middle, 20 (2012) 2, S.35-39 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1074-4762
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Best Practices; Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Communities of Practice; School Restructuring; Teamwork; Middle School Students; Learner Engagement; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Group Dynamics; Learning Strategies; Reflection; Protocol Analysis; Social Cognition; Social Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Grouping; Gruppenbildung; Community; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Gruppendynamik; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Soziale Kognition; Sozialpsychologie
Abstract	Utilizing critical and sociocultural approaches to teaching and learning, this article presents data from seven middle grade students at a Title I school regarding their experiences in a student-constructed learning group. Findings reveal students' desires and abilities to constructively participate in work with others that runs contrary to common "best practices" in student grouping. Dialogic examples of student voice illuminate possible alternatives in grouping that empower students and create student communities of practice (Wenger, 1998). While much professional conversation around grouping students would suggest that the group of seven was too big to succeed, the author's contention is that they were too big to fail. (Contains 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10