COOPERATIVE LEARNING AS A RESOURCE TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL ECOSYSTEM

Alessia Gargano

Abstract


In an ever-changing educational context, the adoption of Universal Design for Learning principles enables a natural inclusion process, in which the focus shifts from intervention on the difficulty to its prevention (Zhang et al., 2024). In the context of the Istituto Comprensivo Tivoli I, the importance of the teachers' role in consolidating adaptive and flexible teaching approaches is explored, with particular attention to the use of Cooperative Learning (CL). The results that emerged highlight improvements in the teaching effectiveness, and in students’ participation and relational and cognitive development

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Teacher training and role transformation; Inclusive learning environments; Cooperative Learning (CL).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32043/gsd.v9i2.1317

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