Question

Recall that Bridgeman (1981) conducted an experiment with ten-year-old children, half of whom had previously had two months' experience in a jigsaw classroom. In this experiment, she showed the youngsters a cartoon in which a little boy waves goodbye to his father at the airport, receives a package from the postman, and bursts into tears upon finding out that it contains a toy plane. Children who had previously participated in the jigsaw classrooms were more likely to say that the postman would be confused at seeing the boy cry after receiving a present. This reflects the idea that jigsaw groups promote the development of ____.

Answer 1

Answer: perspective-taking.

Explanation:

The jigsaw classroom is a kind of cooperative learning where kids with different ethnic backgrounds are meant to cooperate to learn a lesson.

It has been proven that cooperative peer exchange promotes perspective-taking and that those abilities learned in jigsaw classrooms are often generalized to use in different situations. In this case, the kids who have gone through this type of learning, show a better capacity to understand the postman´s perspective given that he´s missing important information from the context.