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Greetings from IASCE: In this issue of our Newsletter, in keeping with the IASCE mission as disseminator and evaluator of information and research about practices in cooperative learning, we continue to offer our members brief and more in-depth reviews of recent published work from around the world. In this issue, publications represent work from preschool and primary classrooms through university and adult learning situations. We have our board member George Jacobs to thank for much of the work that goes into helping the rest of us keep up to date with "what’s new." Please remember to send new publication citations to George at gmjacobs@pacific.net.sg for inclusion in future issues of the Newsletter and/or in our regular column in The Journal of Cooperation and Collaboration in College Teaching. In this issue, we include articles from two board members and one new IASCE member. Rashmi Kumar, a new member, has been gracious in allowing us to publish her account of how she came to understand the potential of cooperative learning—and the power of positive interdependence—through her own experiences as a student and her reflections on that experience. She and Yael Sharan, our esteemed board member based in Israel, remind us just how important meaningful experiential learning is to building an understanding of the power of cooperation. Rashmi and Yael also remind us how much flexibility and creativity are needed from both "facilitators" and "participants" to maximize opportunities for meaningful learning. Maureen Breeze, our very energetic board member based in England, describes the "Co-operative Movement." We encourage you to take special note of this article—both because it provides an interesting picture and history of a worldwide cooperative movement and because IASCE is working in conjunction with the UK Co-operative Learning Network to co-host our next international conference in Great Britain. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! June 20-23, 2002 in Manchester England. We think this will be an exciting event. Watch your mailboxes and our website, WWW.IASCE.net, for the Request for Presentations. We hope you all can join us. Co-president, Lynda Baloche Table of Contents
In conjunction with the UK Co-operative Learning Network, IASCE will be co-hosting our next international conference in Great Britain.
June 20-23, 2002 in Manchester England.
Watch your mailboxes and our website
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