Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-309) and index.

1. Collaboration, Conversation, and Reacculturation -- 2. Consensus Groups: One Kind of Classroom Collaboration -- 3. Writing and Collaboration -- 4. Toward Reconstructing American Classrooms -- 5. Collaborative Learning and Cooperative Learning -- 6. Peer Tutoring and Institutional Change -- 7. Collaborative Learning and Computers -- 8. Education as Conversation -- 9. The Authority of College and University Professors -- 10. Science and Engineering in a Poststructural World -- 11. The Procrustean Bed of Cognitive Thought -- 12. A Plurality of Forces, Desires, and Not Wholly Commensurable Visions -- 13. Reading Literature as Common Property -- 14. A Nonfoundational Curriculum -- 15. Collaborative Learning and the Collaboratively Learned: A Postscript on Graduate Education -- App. A. Classroom and Laboratory Design -- App. B. Research on Collaborative Learning -- App. C. Some Notes on Nesting.