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jigsaw classroom  

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  • Social psychologist Elliot Aronson introduced the jigsaw classroom in 1971, while a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. It was first used as a teaching/learning strategy to help defuse a potentially explosive situation in Austin—its racially segregated schools were slowly desegregating. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Jigsaw Classroom]

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