This study is based on the premise that knowledge of the importance of cooperation, regardless of its emphasis, is little utilized in practice. The study therefore is an attempt of an explorative nature, to represent an effective teaching-learning pra...
This study is based on the premise that knowledge of the importance of cooperation, regardless of its emphasis, is little utilized in practice. The study therefore is an attempt of an explorative nature, to represent an effective teaching-learning practice as it is implemented on the educational scene in Korea. In this study, on the basis of previous studies and documentary analyses, basic conditions of cooperation were first determined and then these conditions were observed and described in terms of their presentation, development and maintenance in practice. Therefore, it was an ethnographic approach to the problem in which a cooperative work was produced and maintained. The practice was analyzed in terms of the following seven categories of cooperative work: self-awareness, pro-social skills, material treatment skills, communication and problem-solving skills, ability to use information, teacher`s basic teaching ability, child`s individual characteristics and response attitudes. Further studies, not limited to cooperative art works, but steeped in broader cooperative efforts engaged in by children in their daily lives.