Action-research in higher education: inquiring about cooperative learning

Abstract

This text collects the experience and the study carried out in the Early Childhood Education Degree of the Cardenal Cisneros University Center (Madrid), given the need to show the 2nd year students enrolled in the subject “Educational Innovation” another way to learn and to teach, based on their own experience. But in order to assess this experience, it was necessary to find a model to follow and from which to collect information, investigate what was happening in the classroom itself and offer a flexible training and research process. For this, the methodology of action-research was used.