The Students' Voice: Experiences of Conflict within Small Learning Groups

This article presents under graduate research of the students' lived experiences in multiple small learning groups in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at University of Washington Bothell and the interpersonal conflicts that impede the learning outcomes attributed to small group pedagogies. It argues for a small group learning policy that informs students of the educative processes and conflict's role in small group activities. Additionally, it calls for a policy that fosters a deeper understanding of various small group methodologies, their uses, and questions how to coordinate the time requirements of small group learning tasks within a community of commuter students.