The Impact of Organising Six-Year-Old Children into Groups on their Collaboration in Achieving Goals

• Authors: Radmila Burkovičová

Abstracts

EN

This article is aimed at presenting the results from research. The aim of the research was to verify whether children organized in groups work more effectively in achieving a common goal. The research method employed was that of a social experiment under natural conditions, with the parallel groups technique. The research group consisted of 100 six-year-old children over the course of two school years from two public kindergartens in the same location of a single town. The assumption was that the frequency of collaboration would be higher at the end of the school year for children organised by teachers into groups in order to achieve a common goal compared to children for whom this opportunity is intentionally not created by their teachers. The assumption was confirmed for the methods in which collaboration was manifested: The assumption was confirmed for manifestations of cooperation: continuous, effective communication; helping a friend; praise, encouragement. The following was not confi rmed: expression of one’s own opinion/proposal; engagement in the achievement of a common goal.

Keywords

EN

collaboration; skill; manifestation; six-year-old child; method of implementation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 63
• Pages: 174-187

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Radmila Burkovičová

• University of Ostrava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.21.63.1.14

Biblioteka Nauki

1964035