Jigsaw classroom is defined as a classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self -esteem of children by placing them in small, desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in his/her group to learn the course material and do well in the class.

Jigsaw classroom, moreover is a method of reducing prejudice; each student receives only part of the information needed to complete a project or prepare for a test. a method of teaching designed to foster positive interracial contact, which involves forming small, culturally diverse groups of students who are each given one part of the material to be learned; a cooperative learning technique for reducing feelings of prejudice