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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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionCo-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 David W. Johnson
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- 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.
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David Johnson, Deutsch's student in the study of social psychology, with his brother Roger Johnson, a science educator, and their sister, educator Edye Johnson Holubec, further developed positive interdependence theory as part of their research and work in teacher and professional training at the Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota (founded in 1969).
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