In a recent TES article James Mannion and Neil Mercer make the following claim:
In not using group work, students are denied the chance to develop skills that can not only help them perform better in schools, but which are also vital for their future employment prospects – not to mention the realisation of a more fully participatory democracy.
First, let me state that I see nothing inherently wrong with pupils working collaboratively. Like any method of working, it has its time and place. But I was led to believe that unless a lesson contained an element of groupwork it could not be a good lesson. It’s not enough to claim that ‘no one really believes this’. I did. I come a from a generation of teachers raised to believe groupwork is inherently good and for that reason alone it deserved to be questioned, prodded and poked.
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