Brief History of Cooperative Learning

History of Cooperative Learning

DATE	EVENT
B.C	Talmud
First Century A.D	Quintillion, Seneca (Qui Docet Discet)
1600s	Johann Amos Comenius of Moravia
1700s	Joseph Lancaster, Andrew Bell
1806	Lancaster School Established in the United States
Early 1800s	Common School Movement in the United States
Late 1800s	Colonel Frances Parker
Early 1900s	John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky
1929-1930s	Books on Cooperation and Competition by Maller, Mead, May, and Dobb Liberty League and National Associoation of Manufacturers Promoted Competition
1940s	World War II, Office of Strategic Services, Military- Related Research
1949	Morton Deutch, theory and Research on Cooperation and Competition
1950s	Applied Group Dynamics Movement, National Training Laboratories Deutsch Research on Trust, Individualistic Situations Naturalistic Studies
1960s	Stuart Cook (1969) Reseach on Cooperation Madsen (Kagan) Research on Cooperation and Competition in Children Inquiry (Discovery) Learning Movment: Bruner, Suchman, B:F: Skinner, Programmed Learning, Behaviour Modification
1962	Morton Deutsch Nebraska Symposium, Cooperation and Trust, Conflict Robert Blake and Jane Mouton, Research on Intergroup Competition
1966	David Johnson, University of Minnesota, Began Training Teachers in Cooperative Learning
1969	Roger Johnson Joined David Johnson at University of Minnesota
1970	David W. Johnson, Social Psychology of Eduction
1971	Robert Hamblin: Behavioral Research on Cooperation/ Competition
1973	David DeVRies and Keith Edwards, Combined Instructional Games Approach with Intergroup Competition, Teams-Games. Tournament.
1974-1975	David and Roger Johnson Research Review on Cooperation/Competition, David and Roger Johnson, Learning Together and Alone
Mid 1970s	Annual Symposium at APA Began (David DeVries and Keith Edwards, David and Roger Johnson, Stuart Cook, Elliot Aronson, Elizabeth Cohen, Others) Robert Slavin Began Development of Cooperative Curricula Spencer Kagan Continued Research on Cooperation among Children
1976	Shlomo and Yael Sharan, Small Group Teaching(Group Investigation)
1978	Elliot Aronson, Jigsaw Classroom Journal of Research and Development in Education, Cooperation Issue Jeanne Gibbs, Tribes.
1979	First IASCE Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1981, 1983	David and Roger Johnson, Meta-Analyses of Research on Cooperation
1985	Elizabeth Cohen, Designing Groupwork Spencer Kagan Developed Structures Approach to Cooperative Learning AERA and ASCD Special Interest Groups Founded
1989	David and Roger Johnson, Cooperation and Competition: Theory and Research
Early 1990s	Cooperative Learning Gains Popularity among Educators
1996	First Annual Cooperative Learning Leadership Conference, Minneapolis

Adapted from several sources, the principal one being Learning Together and Alone. Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning. David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson, 1999.