ABSTRACT
Visiting secondary schools, FE colleges and HE institutions across the UK today it would be difficult to find students who were not familiar with the practice of ‘working in groups’. They are just as likely to work in a group on a case study and presentation in business education as they are to have a small group discussion about a poem in English. Group work can take them out of the school or college environment undertaking projects or surveys, or it can be classroom based. There are many teachers who consider small group work to be a crucial teaching and learning strategy, having developed the appropriate classroom management skills to be able to relinquish the ‘control’ that whole class teaching provides.
