美国学者约翰逊和霍勒别克将合作学习定义为“一种以小组学习为形式,旨在促进学生合作,从而达到最佳学习效果的教学方法”。从本质上讲,合作学习是一种教学形式,它要求学生在一些由几人组成的异质小组中一起从事学习活动,共同完成教师分配的学习任务。合作学习是现代教育的一个重要特征,它将社会心理学的合作原理纳入教学之中,强调人际交往对认知发展的促进功能。为适应社会发展的需要,教育要培养社会所需要的具有合作精神、实践能力的人。在美术课程标准 American scholar Johnson and Holler Buick define cooperative learning as “a teaching method that is based on group learning and aims to promote student cooperation so as to achieve the best learning effect ”. In essence, cooperative learning is a form of teaching that requires students to engage in learning activities together in a heterogeneous group of several people to accomplish the tasks assigned by teachers. Cooperative learning is an important feature of modern education. It integrates the principles of social psychology into teaching and emphasizes the promotion function of interpersonal communication on cognitive development. In order to meet the needs of social development, education needs to cultivate people who have the spirit of cooperation and practical ability needed by society. In the art curriculum standards