Using the Class Group
The Class Group
An important feature of most face-to-face teaching is that it takes place with a group of students. Sessions such as formal lectures seem to attempt to legislate the group dimension out of existence (unsuccessfully, of course), but most other teaching recognises its enormous potential to help or hinder learning.
The following pages address a small selection of the issues about groups of learners:
ATHERTON J S (2009) Learning and Teaching; [On-line] UK: Available: Accessed:
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material by James Atherton: last up-dated 10 February 2010 
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