Preparation for Lifelong Learning in practice: cooperative learning

Abstract

In today’s European pedagogic methodology literature the issue of preparation for Lifelong Learning often brings up the importance of cooperative learning methods. However, the application of these in lessons (the question of ‘HOW’) is rarely discussed. After a short theoretical overview the following chapter intends to introduce the reader to the practice of the most important cooperative learning methods by presenting concrete examples, which were elaborated in the first semester of the 2005 academic year for the University of Bielefeld’s Seminar “Education development and school education” (Unterrichtsentwicklung und schulische Bildung). Naturally, the proposed exercises can be applied in higher education and, with some alterations, in grammar schools and comprehensive schools as well.