Acquisition of Social Skills in Cooperative Learning – a Key for Successful Every Day and Business Communication

Cooperative learning, a method borrowed from social psychology, is a relatively new concept in didactics gaining more and more ground at all levels of education. Thus it is successfully adopted in many educational institutions including universities in the U.S.A., Canada and other West European countries. Having the slogan “together we succeed, alone we fail” it emphasizes the importance of efficient collaboration in all fields of social life in order to obtain high performance and induce synergy. Following study chooses to deal with one of the five basic elements of cooperative learning, namely social skills which are to be developed and acquired at all levels of education, higher education included as a key for successful every day and business communication.