“In competition, the parties are positioned against each
other, and is based on winning”. When people compete the outcome is a win-lose
situation, which means that there is a “gain or a loss”. For example, in high
school I was on their soccer team and we would compete against other high
schools. When we would play each other, at the end of the game there would be a
loser and a winner.
On the other hand, cooperation “is a situation in which we
place greater emphasis on the quality of an interpersonal relationship than on
the outcome. In other words, being
cooperative means to work together to get something done. For example, in class
I was put in a group to take a quiz. Rather than trying to be the smartest one
in the group or show off, we all worked together to get the correct answer. By
all of us working together we got more questions right than if we took the quiz
by ourselves.
Hi Miss Leenie,
ReplyDeleteThe statement you started off with is so strong and really made me think about the term itself and what it means to me...when you hear it being phrased as "positioned against each other", it's intimidating! Relating it back to soccer was a good way to also put it into perspective. The definition of cooperation just sounded so much more appealing, and it should, because that's what we want to strive to have. Teamwork or being on the same page is always helpful. Thank you for your post!