IASCE 2004 Papers Now Online

Just a reminder that papers and power points from IASCE’s very successful 2004 international conference in Singapore are available online at http://www.iasce.net/Conference2004/Conference2004Program.shtml. They provide resources for teaching CL to fellow educationalists and for helping oneself reflect on one’s own use of CL.

Three of the four keynotes are among the papers available on the IASCE website. Lynda Baloche discusses “Collaborative contexts for creativity and innovation,” Kirpal Singh shares his insights on “Asian views on cooperation and collaboration,” and Celeste Brody explores teacher education on CL in “Begin with the teacher: Focusing professional development on teacher learning for cooperative learning.”

In addition to the keynotes, many other papers offer important rewards to the reader. Just a few examples are:

1. Peter Gobel’s “That’s not the way we do it: The effects of cultural and social factors on cooperative learning” offers a “warts and all” depiction of efforts to use Jigsaw in a university in Japan.
2. Ng Keow Eng and Tan Seng Chee’s “An exploratory comparison study on scaffolding narrative writing in Chinese with face-to-face and e-discussions” focuses on the use of internet to promote cooperation among students.
3. Edward Nathan and IASCE 2004 conference chair Christine Lee’s “Exploration on the use of structured academic controversies in the social studies classroom” explores a means of encouraging students to engage in deeper thinking.