Cooperative Education

Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s Director-General, says:

“When you fund education, you are securing progress towards all the Millennium Development Goals”.

To promote learning and life skills for young people and adults, increase adult literacy, and improve the quality education – are some of the ultimate aim of Education for All (EFA) for a sustainable development. Similarly, the Universal Basic Education is one of the boldest attempts in the national history of educational development to equalize the access to literacy education in some countries like United States of America and Nigeria. The National Policy on Education (2004) made social sciences a core subject in the secondary schools in USA and Nigeria, with the objectives of inculcating in the

N.C State University in Singapore greatly recognize the wonders of cooperative learning in teaching-learning process. Relative to students taught traditionally — i.e., with teacher-centered lectures, individual assignments, and competitive grading—cooperatively taught students tend to exhibit higher academic achievement, greater persistence through graduation, better high-level reasoning and critical thinking skills, deeper understanding of learned material, greater time on task and less disruptive behavior in class, lower levels of anxiety and stress, greater intrinsic motivation to learn and achieve, greater ability to view situations from others’ perspectives, more positive and supportive relationships with peers, more positive attitudes toward subject areas, and higher self-esteem (Felder & Brent, 2007). Besides, most of the learning that students do in school is very passive; they are expected to sit back, listen, absorb, and recall. Cooperative learning actively engages the student in his or her learning process by creating an opportunity for teaching and learning to occur between peers. It results in positive peer pressure on all individuals to achieve group goals. It also supports each individual to ensure that those of varying ability can achieve these goals.

It encompasses the use of several instructional techniques. To advance the competencies of the teachers to teach in different subject areas, they are required to undergo school LAC sessions, In-service training and seminar-workshop for them to become well-run on the various educational updates. In these kinds of seminars, trainings and workshops, teachers are taught what are the methodologies, and strategies that they may employ in their