Learning Cooperatively under Challenging Circumstances - Cooperation among Students in High-Risk Contexts in El Salvador

Christine Schmalenbach examines the use and potential of cooperation among students at high-risk schools in El Salvador with the objective of facilitating a culture- and context-sensitive use of cooperative learning in this setting and in similar ones in other countries. At the core is an ethnography of a marginalized neighborhood in the metropolitan area of San Salvador. The author collected data throughout a school year, mostly through participant observation and interviews with teachers, students, parents, and co-workers of a local NGO. To provide context, she conducted a literature review on the history of cooperation among students in El Salvador and implemented an exploratory survey among teachers in the same municipality.

List of contents

Learning Cooperatively.- The Transformative Paradigm.- Ethnography as an Approach.- Historical and Social Background in El Salvador.- A Survey of Cooperation in Schools.- Ethnographic Study and Findings.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Schmalenbach
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2018
• EAN: 9783658213329
• ISBN: 978-3-658-21332-9
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 21 mm x 213 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 356 p. 17 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Pädagogik, C, Bildungssysteme und -strukturen, Education, Teaching, Learning, Cognition & cognitive psychology, International and Comparative Education, Learning & Instruction, Instruction, Comparative education, International education, Research Methods in Education, Education—Research, Instructional Psychology, learning and instruction