Talk:Group work

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I've read thru this article, and it appears that it just makes up a topic by combining the distinct topics of group therapy and social work with groups. The connection between these two topics seems totally made up. Meanwhile, it seems that the most common use of the phrase group work is in education. So, what should this article be about exactly? Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:35, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It might be a WP:SETINDEX of exactly that: the (two) different things that are called by this name. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:36, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe. My instinct is to TNT and rewrite it to be about education, with hatnotes to the social work and psychology meaings. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 05:06, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean something like ability grouping or small-group instruction methods? Or that horrible thing where the teacher assigns one top student, one struggling student, and two kids in the middle to collaborate on a project, because she'd rather have a quarter as many papers to grade, and besides, the school said to infuse "team work" into the curriculum? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:10, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When I've searched for group work, I've typically seen the last one, and that's what I would make this article about. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 06:40, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was usually called a group project when I was younger. (As you can tell, I have some non-neutral views on the subject...) If that's a familiar name, then maybe that would be a reasonable location for it. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:11, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]