ERIC Number: EJ1218054
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Publication Date: 2019-Jul
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Student Negotiated Learning, Student Agency and General Capabilities in the 21st Century: The DeLorean Project
Grainger, Peter; Steffler, Robert; de Villiers Scheepers, Margarietha J.; Thiele, Catherine; Dole, Shelley
Australian Educational Researcher, v46 n3 p425-447 Jul 2019
This paper reports students' perceptions of their learning of 21st century skills through a novel approach to delivery of the school program in Year 10. For 1 day per week, all Year 10 students at this school participate in The DeLorean Project, where they create, design and implement their own real-world projects with the assistance of teachers as facilitators. Student attitudes towards participation in the initiative were surveyed and analysed. Results indicated that students' awareness of skills associated with the General Capabilities of the Australian Curriculum were explicitly developed as a result of participation in the DeLorean Project, particularly critical and creative thinking, ethical behaviour, and personal and social capability. Student voice in relation to the project gives rise to implications for further development and design of DeLorean as new approach to teaching and learning in Australian schools.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Active Learning, High School Students, National Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Ethics, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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