Cooperative Interaction in Multiethnic Contexts

Changing Race Relations in Organizations: A Comparison of Theories.

“…In recent years, there have been a number of successful interventions designed to produce cooperation in the classroom between black and white children (Aronson, 1978;Cook, 1984;Johnson, Johnson, and Maruyama, 1984). Researchers in this tradition take the classroom as their unit, implement cooperative teaching techniques, and often find favorable outcomes.…”

“…White social science has been concerned about race relations in the United States for more than fifty years, and recently the results of that work have again come into question (Gerard, 1983;Cook, 1984). Now there is also an established black social science…”

“…The three authors of the 1953 briefStuart Cook, Kenneth Clark, and Isidor Chein --constituted a mixed racial team. Thei-r views on improving race relations reflected broadly shared beliefs among social scientists of that era and have remained something of a paradigm for American social psychology to this day (Amir, 1969;Cook, 1979Cook, , 1984Gerard, 1983).…”

“…The name given to the basic paradigm is the contact hypothesis (Amir, 1979;Cook 1984). Research pertaining to the hypothesis has occurred in L field and laboratory settings, where the decree of reasonable causal inference varies from study to study.…”

The Effect of Scaffolded Think-Group-Share Learning on Indonesian Elementary Schooler Satisfaction and Learning Achievement in English Classes

“…Previous empirical studies revealed that cooperative learning is effective for enhancing learning achievement, developing higher-order thinking skills, encouraging pro-social behavior, improving inter-ethnic relationships, and increasing motivation to learn (e.g., Cohen, Lotan, & Catanzarite, 1990;Cook, 1984;High, 1993;Holt, 1993;Jacobs & Goh, 2007;Johnson, Johnson, & Stanne, 2000;McCafferty, Jacobs, & DaSilva Iddings, 2006;Sharan & Rich, 1984;Sharan & Shaulov, 1990;Slavin, 1995).…”