Collaborative Learning: Notes from the Field

In a series of articles published in College English and Liberal Education from 1973 on, Kenneth Bruffee (1981, 745) has urged a shift to collaborative learning so that higher education may more accurately reflect the interde pendent nature of the society that it serves. In these articles he has de scribed collaborative learning as a process that "personalizes knowledge by socializing it, providing students with a social context of learning peers with whom they are engaged on con ceptual issues." In the collaborative process the teacher's influence recedes and be