Open AccessAn Investigation of the Cooperative Learning Process of Students with Hearing Loss in the Social Studies Course
Author(s) -
Elif Akay
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v10n6p84
Subject(s) - psychology , social skills , curriculum , set (abstract data type) , cooperative learning , adaptation (eye) , process (computing) , mathematics education , teaching method , medical education , pedagogy , developmental psychology , computer science , medicine , neuroscience , programming language , operating system
The Social Studies course, as part of the curriculum starting with primary school, aims to improve the social adaptation skills of students. Cooperative learning reinforces these skills by providing students with active involvement opportunities to set common goals in small heterogeneous groups. This case study investigates the implementation of the cooperative learning model in the Social Studies course with 4th grade students with hearing loss. The data were collected via video recordings of the lessons, voice recordings of the validity and reliability committee, documents, the researcher’s journal, and the process-products. Per the outcomes of this study, it is safe to state that the cooperative learning model contributes to debating skills on the Social Studies concepts as well as knowledge transfer, reasoning, and positive interdependence skills of students with hearing loss who receive an education based on the auditory-oral approach.