A Learning Experience through Cooperative Projects. Teachers and Students Visions

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyze and evaluate the results of an educational, cooperative and inclusive project developed in a primary school in the province of Malaga after training in the center. Research strategies such as participant observation, documentary analysis, discussion groups and individual interviews with teachers have been used. In a general way, all the teaching staff of the center have participated in the research, also, in a particular way, we have focused the research on the 3rd and 4th year groups of primary educations in the area of Spanish Language and Literature. From the research process, two categories have emerged that revolve around the divergences in approaches and in the implementation of the educational project, and the perceptions, evaluations and experiences of the students. Among the conclusions obtained, it is relevant to point out, on the one hand, the appearance of three teacher profiles, characterized respectively by attitudes of indifference, confusion and incompetence towards the task, and proactivity and motivation; and, on the other hand, to find comments and evaluations made by both the teachers and the students, pointing out the benefits that the experience has brought them.