Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge by Professor Kenneth A. Bruffee PhD

by Kenneth A. Bruffee

In Collaborative Learning, Kenneth Bruffee offers a compelling new model for thinking about how we teach, learn, and do research. Proposing that knowledge is 'constructed through negotiation with others' in communities of peers, Bruffee argues that understanding the learning process as an interdependent, collaborative enterprise is essential for today's college and university educators.

Genres: Education

Hardcover

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Kenneth A. Bruffee is Professor of English and Director of the Scholars Program and the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

A graduate of Wesleyan University with a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University, he has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cooper Union, and the University of Pennsylvania. He directed a FIPSE-funded Institute in Peer Tutoring and Collaborative Learning in 1979-82. He has held a Broeklundian Professorship at Brooklyn College, 1991-94, and was a Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellow, 1991-92.

Reviews

[Apostolos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read. The first part of the book discusses collaboration as a means of nonfoundational knowledge teaching. I felt that a large part of the book (part II) dealt with the philosophy of nonfoundational knowledge instruction (much more so than collaboration).