Building on his work with Mikael Quennerstedt (See Casey & Quennerstedt, 2019), Ash will show how, by returning to the founding philosophy of John Dewey, we can create a physical education curriculum built around the value of experience.
Specifically, he will develop participants understanding of the five elements of cooperative learning (i.e. Positive Interdependence Promotive Face-to-face Interaction Individual Accountability Interpersonal and Small Group Skills Group Processing) and introduce the idea of adding:
- A situational element which moves from the idea of cooperative children to participants in cooperative events.
- A directional element which shifts from teaching cooperation to experiencing cooperation as a transactional process.
- A temporal element in which cooperative learners decide, over time, what it means to cooperate.
- A communal element which recognises that students’ have different end when participating in cooperative learning activities.
- An educative element which holds that learning should be discovered and not predefined through a process of inquiry.
