This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRin G (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enhance the learning potential of pupils working in classroom groups by actively involving teachers in a programme designed to raise levels of group work during typical classroom learning activities. Internationally, the SPRin G project is the largest evaluation of effective group working methods in comparison to traditional teaching, with findings that show raised levels of pupil achievement and a doubling of sustained, active engagement in learning.
The opening chapters present arguments regarding the relationship of social interaction and children’s cognitive development and examine theories that explain why social interactional processes should be integrated into primary school pedagogic practices.
Next, the book describes the conceptual and methodological basis for the SPRin G studies, especially its focus on the relational approach, the type of involvement of teachers and classroom planning. Further chapters present key results and describe the background and methods used to establish SPRin G-based effects on pupil progress in mathematics, literacy and science, including both macro and micro assessments; how the SPRin G approach affected pupil-pupil interactions and teacher-pupil interactions, as measured by systematic on-the-spot observations and analyses of videotapes of groups working on specially designed tasks work; and effects on pupil self-completed measures of motivation and attitudes to group work.
The book also analyses reflections of teachers who have worked with SPRin G: moving from theory to practice as well as adding insights associated with implementing SPRin G principles in schools. Drawing upon developmental psychological, socialpsychological and classroom research, it develops a new and ambitious social pedagogic approach to classroom learning, with a stress on group work, which will be of interest to researchers, teachers and policy-makers.
This book includes contributions from Andrew Tolmie and Ed Baines, who were also involved in the Scot SPRin G and SPRin G projects.
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Foreword.- 1. Can the grouping of children in classrooms affect their learning: an introduction to social pedagogy.- 2. Groups and classrooms.- 3. The SPRin G Project: the intervention programme and the evaluation methods.- 4. SPRin G at Key Stage 1: Effective group work with young children.- 5. Improving the effectiveness of collaborative group work at KS2: effects on pupil attainment, classroom behaviour and attitudes.- 6. Scot SPRin G: The effects of group work in Scottish primary schools on attainment, interaction and classroom relationships: Relational familiarity and class composition on support for group work; Andrew Tolmie.- 7. Teachers’ experiences of implementing the SPRin G Programme in schools; Ed Baines.- 8. Conclusions: The contribution of SPRin G to knowledge about collaborative group work.
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