合作学习是20世纪70年代由美国著名学者教育家David Koonts首先倡导并实施的并在20世纪70年代中期至80年代中期取得实质性进展的一种教学理论与策略体系。强调学生的学习过程和学习方式,将社会心理学的合作原理应用于教学之中,以教学中的人际合作和互动为基本特征。这种理论和策略冲破了传统教学论的许多藩篱,对教学过程给予了重新的界定,对 Cooperative learning is a teaching theory and tactical system that was first advocated and implemented by famous American scholar educator David Koonts in the 1970s, and made substantial progress in the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Emphasizing the students’ learning process and learning methods, applying the principles of cooperation in social psychology to teaching, and taking the interpersonal cooperation and interaction in teaching as the basic features. This theory and tactics have broken through many barriers to traditional teaching theory and have given a new definition to the teaching process.