ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some educational experiences regarding cooperative learning; some were developed in the US, others in Europe, in different contexts from primary schools to university. The cooperative learning concerned studying texts and mathematical learning. Scripted cooperation generally refers to dyadic cooperative work on texts organised by the teacher in order to foster four dimensions when studying, processing and acquiring information from texts. The cooperative strategies use the benefit of making an oral summary while creating multiple opportunities for it. Positive resource interdependence is at heart of cooperative methods, such as in the jigsaw method. Learning statistics is mandatory for psychology students in many university degrees. The cooperative activities are built on regular activities where teachers reflect on the way they can structure these activities in order to foster constructive interactions with equal participation from all students. For that purpose, teachers can rely on principles for preparing students and for organising peer interaction in academic tasks.
