Collaborative Learning in Staffrooms and Classrooms

Originally published in 1994, Collaborative Learning in Staffrooms and Classrooms seeks to widen definitions of collaborative learning beyond formal groupwork in classrooms and organised teamwork in staffrooms. This is done through examining a rich variety of actual experiences of working together. Evidence from classrooms and staffrooms is used to reconceptualise collaborative learning, in order to reduce the inertia, indifference and doubt which limit its use; and to overcome the tendency for it to be used as a means of control rather than as a support for learning.