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David W. Johnson

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning Theorists

American professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota and co-director, with his brother Roger T. Johnson, of the university's Cooperative Learning Center. Johnson has researched and written extensively on social interdependence theory and its application to structuring cooperative, competitive and individualistic learning in the classroom.

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American 1
Defining Contribution
Co-founded the University of Minnesota's Cooperative Learning Center with Roger T. Johnson and built the research base for social interdependence theory applied to classroom cooperative learning. 1
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Roger T. Johnson, Thinkers

Brothers and long-time co-developers of cooperative learning at the University of Minnesota.

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Source Cooperative Learning Institute: Roger and David Johnson
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