Re: [xmca] Project Based Learning

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Thanks Tony. I am familar with Problem Based Learning, as it 
was officially adopted by the entire Medical Faculty at 
Melbourne University during my time there, and it has been 
very successul, in my view. Soon we may have doctors who can 
talk as well! And there were similar approaches running in a 
number of different faculties.

The stuff I'm more intrigued with is what I saw only many 
years ago with "difficult children," or whatever the current 
euphemism is, where teenagers selected their own project and 
worked on it all year ...

andy

Tony Whitson wrote:
> Andy, I think you'd be interested in
>
> Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom 
> (Teaching for Social Justice) by Brian D. Schultz
>
> I think what happens there is "Project Based Learning" in priniple. I 
> would be skeptical of anything by that name presented as some kind of 
> cookbook "method."
>
> Although this is the other PBL, you might be interested in an AERA paper 
> by Eugene Matisov, John St. Julien & myself:
> The Quest for “Authenticity” in Problem-Based Learning:
> Reflections on PBL in Pre-Service Teacher Education Courses  at
> http://www.udel.edu/soe/whitson/curriculum/files/PBL-WhitsonStJulienMatusovAERA2002.htm 
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Andy Blunden wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give me an opinion on the value of Project-Based Learning. 
> > Does it work (in other than privielegd schools)? What are the main 
> > criticism?
> >
> > Andy
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