Cooperative Learning in Physical Education: A research based approach (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport)

Cooperative Learning in Physical Education: A research based approach (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport)

by Ben Dyson (Editor), Ashley Casey (Editor)

Synopsis

Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional development tool in general education and is now emerging in physical education.

This book defines Cooperative Learning in physical education and examines how to implement Cooperative Learning in a variety of educational settings. It explores Cooperative Learning in physical education from three main perspectives. The first, context of learning, provides descriptions of Cooperative Learning in different levels of education (elementary school, secondary school, and university physical education). The second, Cooperative Learning in the curriculum, offers case studies from teachers and researchers of their experiences of implementing Cooperative Learning within their own national context. The third perspective, key aspects of Cooperative Learning, examines how the different elements of the model have been foregrounded in efforts to enhance learning in physical education.

As the only text to provide international perspectives, from eight different countries, of Cooperative Learning in physical education, this book is important reading for any student, researcher or teacher with an interest in physical education, sport education, sport pedagogy, curriculum development or methods for learning and teaching.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 16 Apr 2012

ISBN 10: 0415667380
ISBN 13: 9780415667388

Media Reviews

`I salute the leadership of Dyson and Casey in revealing what can be possible through research and development in education ...

This book is an international and national treasure for the profession in its scholarly attention to the how of cooperative skills building, and to the how of equitable and inclusive teaching', Adrienne Alton-Lee, Qualitative Research in Education

Author Bio
Ben Dyson is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has taught for over 20 years in universities in Canada, the USA and New Zealand. His research focuses on curriculum and instruction, innovative pedagogical practices in schools and physical education policy research. Ashley Casey is course leader for Sport and Physical Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He has worked as a secondary-school physical education teacher for 15 years during which time he completed his PhD. His research is around sustained curriculum renewal in physical education through models-based practices such as cooperative learning. He has published work on school-based interventions using these approaches.