Project-based learning. A quality learning strategy

Authors

  • Joan Rué i Domingo Pedagog, exprofessor de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Keywords:

Project-based learning (PrBL), learning quality, curricular strategy, active learning, enhancing professionalism, changing practices.

Abstract

Project-based learning (PrBL) enhances the sense of agency in learners in addition to their motivation. It positively deals with personal competences and autonomy in their ways of thinking and doing. Such strengths facilitate the relationship of the student with both the culture and the meaning of learning in a more qualitative way than the usual teaching and learning relationships do. PBL should not be implemented in schools without structural changes at the curricular level as well as in tutoring and in all the resources available to students. As it comes to be extended through a school, other changes are required in the organisation of teachers, times and spaces. The results of PBL research will need to be considered as well. Otherwise, PBL may be merely a teaching activity with irrelevant consequences. In short, PBL focuses on a crucial issue: the need for professional development as a key resource for the implementation of these strategic learning proposals.

Keywords: Project-based learning (PrBL), learning quality, curricular strategy, active learning, enhancing professionalism, changing practices.

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Author Biography

Joan Rué i Domingo, Pedagog, exprofessor de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.



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How to Cite

Rué i Domingo, J. (2018). Project-based learning. A quality learning strategy. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 13, 15–43. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/144649

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Monographic issue. What is learnt from projects?