ERIC Number: EJ1108386
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
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Play as Mediator for Knowledge-Creation in Problem Based Learning
Thorsted, Ann Charlotte; Bing, Rie Grønbeck; Kristensen, Michael
Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, v3 n1 p63-77 2015
This article recounts reflections by a small group of students and their supervisor on play utilized at their meetings as part of a Problem Based Learning (PBL) process. The students experienced how a less traditional professor-student relationship arose, which transformed their interaction and relationship into a more holistic, trustful, sensitive, open, creative and collaborative form that gave rise to the following questions: what can a more playful approach bring into a PBL learning-space? What influence can play have on learning, and on student-to-student and student-supervisor relationships and collaboration? Why did the students find that this experience enhanced a learning that differed from their earlier experiences? What was it play had mediated? The article, which is also a theoretical discussion of future pedagogics in Higher Education, introduces a new model including three different knowledge forms. These take their departure from a PBL approach--regarded as a "problem-solving" approach to learning, and PpBL (Play and Problem Based Learning), a "playful", experimenting and intuitive approach.
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Play, Teacher Student Relationship, Holistic Approach, Case Studies, Workshops, Creativity, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Models, Problem Solving, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Student Projects, Learning Processes, Student Developed Materials, Communities of Practice
Aalborg University Press. Skjernvej 4A, 2.sal, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark. Web site: http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/pbl
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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