What is peer interaction's role in understanding the concepts and principles? knowing new resources? sharing experience? providing motivation?
Dear Sudhakar
Yes, definitely the peer interactions help learning and understanding in many ways.
The interactions among peers in the classroom are a normal and essential part of the learning process that influence the lifelong learning habits of students. The potential effects of peer relationships are reciprocal: Some students are more receptive than others. On one extreme, for example, is the student who values and seeks peer input on every decision; on the other is the social isolate who avoids interaction in and out of the classroom. This entry examines selected variables that can influence learners, including developmental differences, motivational and learning considerations, and the function of the classroom contexts
Abraham H. Maslow viewed the need for love and belongingness as a step toward achievement in his hierarchy of motivation model, which he described in 1954. In this view, the deprivation of more basic needs hinders progress along the path to achievement. In Maslow's model, people must have love and belongingness issues satisfied in order to address needs of achievement. For example, a student with deprived relationship concerns will be less able to participate in classroom learning opportunities. The ability to learn is built on a foundation of comfortable relationships with others, including peers and family, and classroom learning is all about learning with and in the presence of others
With consideration of these social determinants, how then can the educational process be structured to boost the learning of individuals? For younger students, providing a whole-class environment that enriches learning opportunities with teachers who model positive learning values will set the new learner on a path toward academic achievement. Encouraging elementary students to interact with peers, adults, and family members who have strong learning desires can support the students' development as learners. Although peer influences may not yet be as powerful as they will become in student achievement motivation, the effects of young students' interactions cannot be disregarded.
As the learner matures, the importance of how peers view the learner's actions and decisions may well supercede the opinions of others, possibly even the views of the learners themselves. The academic environment needs to be structured in a fashion that allows for student interaction but sets boundaries that afford pro-social behavior. Students who are concentrating on unresolved issues in their social life, whether these issues result from social isolation or from social or home crisis, will be less able to profit from classroom opportunities. Recognition of the strategic effort required to maintain classroom social and academic order can help both the learner and the teacher decide how to approach problems addressed in either domain.
Within the classroom, time and organization can be established to focus students on their learning. Pairing and grouping students by their devotion to academics, for example, may benefit all involved. Those who value learning can share their enthusiasm and act as mentors for those who have other priorities. Students who motivate themselves in nonacademic directions can view and appreciate the choices of peer learners.
I have some related research article and thesis, please find as attachment in file
And the page on this is also on research gate, which,s link is:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222437593_Peer_Interaction_and_Learning_in_Small_Groups
Hope this will help you to find the ways to answer your problems.
Happy Researching....
Article Peer Interaction and Learning in Small Groups
Thank you Dr. Subhash and Alberta.
The papers (Links) suggested by you are really helpful.
You may also wish to have a look at Freeman et al.'s meta-analysis of 225 studies comparing traditional lecturing to interactive engagement pedagogy in STEM courses. It was in: PNAS 111(23), 8410 (2014) http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.full.pdf
Dear Harshvardhan Singhji
The links provided by you are very interesting.
thanks for valuable support.
Peer interaction also helps to understand the solutions for various problems faced by us during learning. Certain answers, what we learn as a solutions, appears to be confusing. however, peers can provide better explanations for them.
I have also seen that peer interactions promotes inactive members to participate actively in the learning process.
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