AN INVESTIGATION IN TO EFFECT OF CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING ON INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CO-OPERATIVE WORK

Abstract

The present system of education dominantly nurtures a competitive learning environment focusing primarily on the cognitive domain Somewhere Somehow the social nature of learning holds cooperation in high esteem. Helping students develop socially and emotionally is important, if not more important as helping them progress academically keeping this in mind, the effectiveness of cooperative learning was studied in relation to individual and group cooperative work. It revealed that teaching through cooperative learning is able to bring significant changes in the cooperative behaviour of teacher trainees.