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The study aims to evaluate how cooperative learning experiences affect ethnic relations and attitudes among students in newly desegregated schools.

The Impact of Cooperative Learning Experiences on Cross‐Ethnic Relations and Attitudes

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The study aims to evaluate how cooperative learning experiences affect ethnic relations and attitudes among students in newly desegregated schools.
Field experiment conducted in junior and senior high schools with newly desegregated students.
Induced interethnic contact through small interdependent student work groups comprising white, black, and Mexican-American students.
Teacher endorsement and student behavior were assessed post-intervention.
Cooperative interethnic teaching method received favorable endorsement from teachers.
Increased cross-ethnic helping behavior observed among students.
White students showed greater respect and friendship choices for Mexican-American classmates.

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Field experiment demonstrates improved ethnic relations through cooperative learning in schools, suggesting effective teaching methods.

Weigel et al. (1975) studied this question.

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