Additional Info:
The author argues for collaborative learning at the college and university level, a method which engenders interdependence among peers rather than cultivating passivity, authoritarianism, irresponsibility, and hyper-competitiveness. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Preface
Acknowledgments

ch. 1 Collaboration, Conversation, and Reacculturation
ch. 2 Consensus Groups: One Kind of Classroom Collaboration
ch. 3 Writing and Collaboration
ch. 4 Toward Reconstructing American Classrooms
ch. 5 Collaborative Learning and Cooperative Learning
ch. 6 Peer Tutoring and Institutional Change
ch. 7 Collaborative Learning and Computers
ch. 8 Education as Conversation
ch. 9 The Authority of College and University Professors
ch. 10 Science and Engineering in a Poststructural World
ch. 11 The Procrustean Bed of Cognitive Thought
ch. 12 A Plurality of Forces, Desires, and Not Wholly Commensurable Visions
ch. 13 Reading Literature as Common Property
ch. 14 A Nonfoundational Curriculum
ch. 15 Collaborative Learning and the Collaboratively Learned: A Postscript on Graduate Education

App. A Classroom and Laboratory Design
App. B Research on Collaborative Learning
App. C Some Notes on Nesting

Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index