Techniques for Increasing Group Cohesion in the 5th Grade
Techniques for Increasing Group Cohesion in the 5th Grade

Summary/Abstract: The study sets out an exploratory research that aimed at testing some techniques for increasing the cohesion of the 5thgrade student group. The techniques were included in the classes of counselling and personal development through grouptasks in which the whole group of students was involved. The activity took place during the first school semester of the2019-2020 school year. Following the application of the techniques, their viability was tested through a focus groupdiscussion with 10 form teachers involved in the research. They described how the activity was carried out and the resultsobtained in the cohesion of the student class. The investigation is preliminary to that extended to the level of severalschools, aiming to make the built techniques more efficient, in order to be widely applied, to the students in the secondaryschool cycle.

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