Cooperating to Learn
Cooperating to Learn
Cooperation has always been essential for human beings, both for learning and for protection. A child has so much to learn at birth that “it takes a whole village to raise one.” Yet the exponential accumulation of knowledge has led educational systems to favor traditional, lecture-based teaching directed at passive groups of recipients, rather than facilitating collective learning processes grounded in cooperation. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of ways to learn cooperatively, even if the voluntary effort to implement them is too often lacking. Still, we can all encourage their development.