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Cooperative Learning Cooperative Learning allows learners
to negotiate, plan, investigate, evaluate
Cooperative Learning consists of two
words; “Cooperation” and “Learning”. their learning outcome together.
So, collectively it focuses on working Rather than working individually and in
together to achieve desired goals. competition with each other, learners
are given the responsibility of creating a
Cooperative Learning is process driven, learning community where all learners
i.e., those involved engage in a social participate in significant and meaningful
process and must pay attention to ways.
that process for them to achieve their
desired end point. It usually involves Fishbowl Strategy
people working in groups (at least two
people are involved, usually more). During Fishbowl, the facilitator chooses
There may be “group products” towards a group of learners to discuss a given
which learners are working and there topic. The rest of the class watches,
may be “individual products” which listens, and observes the discussion. A
are achieved through the people in secondary discussion occurs concerning
the group helping each other deal with the outcomes and process of the first.
their own individual learning concerns Steps of the Fishbowl strategy are
(Agarwal and Nagar, 2011, p.19). depicted in Figure-1 (Yabarmase, 2013,
Fishbowl, n.d.).

Figure-1: Steps of the Fishbowl strategy

Step 1
Selection of the Content

Step 2
Selection of Fishbowl Group Members

Step 3
Guiding Discussion

Step 4
Role Reversal

Step 5
Evaluation and Summary

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