I wrote a critique of group work based on my own experiences with it in school and in university, echoing many of the same grievances against voiced in this dis

I wrote a critique of group work based on my own experiences with it in school and in university, echoing many of the same grievances against voiced in this discussion: http://likewise.am/2015/07/01/on-communication-skills-and-pedagogy/ http://likewise.am/2015/07/01/on-communication-skills-and-pe... I took particular issue with the alleged wisdom of putting students of very heterogenous levels together so that the better ones can serve as a "role model". However, my conclusion was that the best medicine is a return to more structured and - in some respects - authoritarian teaching methods centred around the lecture, not a different kind of diffuse self-motivated learning model.