PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Jigsaw Puzzle, Ingroups And Outgroups, Psy
10 Dec 2020
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Jigsaw classroom: a cooperative learning method used to reduce racial prejeduce through interaction in group efforts cooperation and shared goals are necessary for intergroup contact to be successful. Yet the typical classroom is filled with competition, exactly the wrong ingredient. When a teacher asks a question kids wave their hands wanting to answer. Then, as soon as one student is called on, the others groan in frustration. In the competition for the teacher"s approval, they are losers hardly a scenario suited to positive intergroup contact. Elliot aronson developed the jigsaw classroom to combat this problem. In newly desegregated public schools, they assigned grade 5 students to small racially and academically mixed groups. The material to be learned within each group was divided into subtopics, much the way a jigsaw puzzle is broken into pieces. Each student was responsible for learning one piece of the puzzle, after which all members took turns teaching their material to one another.
