Explorations in Peer Tutoring

Peer tutoring is the system of instruction in which learners help each other and learn by teaching. Invented in the late 18th-century, the technique has been re-discovered in recent years and put to use in a wide variety of ways, enabling students to teach students, students to teach children, non-professional adults to teach other adults and even learning-disabled children to help other children. It is a technique that has many useful and varied applications including adult literacy programmes or work with cultural ... Read More

Peer tutoring is the system of instruction in which learners help each other and learn by teaching. Invented in the late 18th-century, the technique has been re-discovered in recent years and put to use in a wide variety of ways, enabling students to teach students, students to teach children, non-professional adults to teach other adults and even learning-disabled children to help other children. It is a technique that has many useful and varied applications including adult literacy programmes or work with cultural minorities. This book aims to provide insight into how peer tutoring works and offers practical ideas on how to set up and run a scheme. Read Less