Teaching strategies of cooperative learning in higher education

Abstract

From the proposal made in order to investigate about Teaching strategies concerning to collaborative work, checking previous investigations and the bibliography, it is settle down the conceptual relationship between Collaborative Work, Cooperative Learning and Strategy of Teaching; concluding that Cooperative learning is understood like a teaching model that includes a group of strategies for the knowledge construction in a cooperative way; teaching strategies are process that require development moments in the planning, implementation, evaluation stages; and that the strategies of collaborative work make part of this teaching model. Starting from the previous understanding, with a qualitative focus and ethnographic method; the investigation characterizes the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of the Teaching strategies of Cooperative Learning in Higher Education in five Universities from Bogotá, having that the Cooperative Learning is configured from strategies which the teacher promotes the cooperation among equals to reach a learning goal, in three kinds of practical: Intentional practice on theoretical and conceptual of Cooperative Learning, Intentional practice in strategies of collaborative work and, intentional practice in group work without any explicit appropriation of cooperative learning theory.