El trabajo en grupos cooperativos y su incidencia para el aprendizaje significativo en educación general básica

Abstract

The present bibliographical investigation entitled WORK IN COOPERATIVE GROUPS AND ITS IMPACT IN SIGNIFICANT LEARNING IN GENERAL BASIC EDUCATION aims to present work strategies for cooperative groups to generate in students significant learning. To develop this thesis there was a gathering, review and analysis of literature sources such as physical and virtual books and scientific articles primarily related to the topics of meaningful learning, cooperative learning, and work strategies in cooperative groups. It has been concluded that cooperative learning and meaningful learning are closely related in their theoretical fundaments, in the motivation of the learner to participate in cooperative groups and achieve meaningful learning, and in the mediation between the students and the teacher.

The strategies proposed for cooperative group works generated significant learning, emphasizing teachers and student´s fundamental roll, participating actively in its motivation to learn in positive interdependency, in its search of group and individual objectives. The results recommend implementing cooperative work strategies in the teaching-learning spaces because they are based in a constructivist approach, pedagogic theory that is prescribed in the Ecuadorian learning process for basic general education.