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Direct linkYing, Albert Liang Tsu – Childhood Education, 2021
Architecture education may be able teach students more about real-life problem-solving than traditional subjects.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Architecture, Problem Solving, Creativity
Youngerman, Ethan; Culver, K. C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2019
This chapter considers problem-based learning, where engaging students in the application of knowledge to real-world, ill-structured problems can foster learning, improve communities, and inspire instructors.
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Relevance (Education), Problem Solving
Thibaut, Lieve; Knipprath, Heidi; Dehaene, Wim; Depaepe, Fien – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
A promising approach to increase students' motivation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is integrated STEM education (iSTEM). This is an instructional approach that emphasizes the deeper connections between the STEM disciplines by involving students in design challenges centered around real-world problems. However, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Relevance (Education)
Download full textKokko, Sirpa; Eronen, Lasse; Sormunen, Kari – Design and Technology Education, 2015
This article introduces a project in a Finnish secondary school where mathematics education was combined with crafts instruction. The idea was to provide the students with an interdisciplinary real-world learning context in which they worked collaboratively on an open-ended design task. The approach was problem-based and student-centred in a way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Musante, Susan – BioScience, 2011
Students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, can now take an innovative biology course in which an integrated, interdisciplinary, problem-based approach is used--one that the scientific community itself is promoting. The first course in a four-semester sequence, Biology 123--The Living World: Concepts and Connections--explores real-world…
Descriptors: World Problems, Biology, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Marle, Peter D.; Decker, Lisa; Taylor, Victoria; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen; Khaliqi, David; Owens, Janel E.; Henry, Renee M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
This paper discusses a K-12/university collaboration in which students participated in a four-day scenario-based summer STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) camp aimed at making difficult scientific concepts salient. This scenario, Jumpstart STEM-CSI: Chocolate Science Investigation (JSCSI), used open- and guided-inquiry…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, High School Students
Peer reviewedGoodwin, Dean; Adkins, Jeannette C. – School Science Review, 1997
Presents a continuing study on the Chesapeake Bay as an example of a problem-based approach to environmental education using real life problems. Argues that the approach gives students responsibility for their own learning. (DDR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
