Program
The Center for Learning and Teaching Newsletter Teaching News
Author's Department
Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
Document Type
News Article
Publication Title
New Chalk Talk
Publication Date
9-24-2004
Abstract
Despite the fact that I taught for several decades in a sociology department and believed that I had attained a degree of professionalism in this field, it was Gilly Salmon, a leading British pedagogist who teaches at the Open University (UK) that recently drew my attention to the importance of the work Emile Durkheim, a leading French sociologist, in respect to my quest to enhance quality learning in my classes. Writing more than a century ago, and with reference to his seminal work on collective representation, “Durkheim showed that a sense of security and progress depends on broad agreement both on the ends to be pursued and on the accepted means of attaining them.” (Salmon, 2000: 28) Thus, it was Durkheim’s work, a sociological account of the consequences of socialization and its implications for human behavior that motivated me to explore the benefits to be derived from perceiving my class as a “learning community” with its own distinct learning culture, formal and informal rules and norms and behavior.
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APA Citation
Glavanis, P. M.
(2004). Active Learning (2) Cooperative/Collaborative Learning. New Chalk Talk, 3(10),
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/4939
MLA Citation
Glavanis, Pandeli M. Dr.
"Active Learning (2) Cooperative/Collaborative Learning." New Chalk Talk, vol. 3,no. 10, 2004,
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/4939