Real-Life Problem Solving: A Collaborative Approach to Interdisciplinary Learning (Psychology in the Classroom)

✍ Scribed by Beau Fly Jones, Claudette M. Rasmussen, Mary C. Moffitt

• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This handbook describes an approach to interdisciplinary learning in which students and teachers investigate open-ended, authentic problems that have clear relevance both to themselves and the larger community. It allows teachers to transform the curriculum into an active process of inquiry that helps students learn to set goals, direct their own learning, and build knowledge around a variety of perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Real-Life Problem Solving......Page 4
Table of contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction: In Search of More Meaningful Learning and Teaching......Page 15
1 -Understanding the Research on Problem-Based Learning......Page 31
2 - What Is Problem-Based Learning as Codevelopment and What Are
the Benefits?......Page 55
3 - Planning and Implementing Problem-Based Learning as Codevelopment......Page 71
4 - Applying PBL-CD to Language Arts and Humanities......Page 99
5 - Applying PBL-CD to Science and Mathematics
......Page 125
6 - Applying PBL-CD to Interdisciplinary Multicultural Studies......Page 155
7 - Applying PBL-CD to Projects Involving Multiple Schools......Page 193
Final Review......Page 227
Appendixes......Page 231
Glossary......Page 245
References......Page 251
About the Authors......Page 259