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Download full textBrears, Lindsay; MacIntyre, Bill; O'Sullivan, Gary – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper explores the foundational principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as an integrative teaching strategy designed deliberately to cross discipline boundaries in order to make meaningful and lasting connections. The authors suggest that while PBL has in recent times has largely manifested towards a method of inquiry within a single…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Reflective Teaching
Ara, Farhat; Natarajan, Chitra; Chunawala, Sugra – Design and Technology Education, 2009
This paper presents the strategies employed by Indian middle-school students working in groups to identify three unfamiliar artefacts. The activity described in this paper was aimed at sensitising students to the close link between form and function and to bring a certain amount of uncertainty in the tasks before the actual design task. It was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Identification, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Group Activities
