Cooperative Learning The Power To Conform Race Relations By Dr Kagan

In the article, Cooperative Learning The Power to Transform Race Relations by Dr. Spencer Kagan it talks about the study Dr. Kagan performed with 2,000 students. The teachers were split into two groups, one group would teach in traditional methods way and the second group would use cooperative learning. “When taught with traditional methods in which students do not work with others, in the first few years of school, students are color-blind. That is, they choose their friends, even best friends, without regarding race” (Kagan, 2006, p. 53). I observe this all the time in my placements. When I was in the pre-school or kindergarten, the race or ethnicity did not matter to the students. However, in the second and third grade the students are more