Many researchers confirm the effectiveness of cooperative learning (see Felder & Brent, 2007; Johnson,
Johnson, Stanne, 2000). In this sense, the results show that Learning Together and Group Investigation
Cooperation promote higher achievement than competitive or individualistic effort.
Therefore, in order to introduce cooperative learning in our classes gradually we chose these two approaches
to be implemented with undergraduate students of Early Childhood Teaching studies of the University of Seville,
Spain.
As a general overall aim we pursued that our students learn how to make cooperative learning work, both to
develop their own social and thinking skills and to make them able to implement this way of working in their
future career as infant educators. Far from intending all possible skills development at the same time, we selected
to focus first on improving the social and thinking skills of our students.