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Cooperative Learning & Games

• Canfield, Jack and Harold C. Wells. 100 Ways to Build Self-Concept in the Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1976. Creative activities for affirming the positive self-concept of children and adults.
  
  
• Glasser, William. Schools Without Failure. New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishers, 1969. A classic book about the reasons why children fail in schools. Glasser shows that problem solving, peer counseling, and peer management of conflict, tolerant attitudes about others, among other concepts, help to build successful schools.
  
  
• Johnson, David W., Roger T. Johnson, and Edythe Johnson Holubec. Circles of Learning. Revised Second Edition. Edina, MN: Interaction Book Co., 1986. An overview of cooperative learning strategies and their application in the classroom. An excellent introduction to the cooperative learning model.
  
  
• Schniedewind, Nancy and Ellen Davidson. Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Lives: A Sourcebook of Activities for Building a Peaceful World. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, Co., 1987. Dozens of reproducible worksheets, lively graphics, and several hundred activities. While written for upper elementary and junior high school students, many activities are appropriate for high school students.
  
  
• Boal, Augusto. Games for Actors and Non-Actors. New York: Routledge Press, 1992.
  
  
• Fluegleman, Andrews, Ed. More New Games Book. Garden City, NY: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1981.
  
  
• Fluegleman, Andrews, Ed. The New Games Book. Garden City, NY: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1976.
  
  
• Luvmour, Josette and Sambhova Luvmour. Everyone Wins! Cooperative Games and Activities. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1990.
  
  
• Orlick, Terry. The Cooperative Sports and Game Book. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1978.
  
  
• Weinstein, Matt, and Joel Goodman. Play fair: Everybody’s Guide to Noncompetitive Play. San Luis Obispo, CA: Impact Publishers, 1980. (Impact Publishers, PO Box 1094, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406)

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