Syllabus
1. Projects and the Curriculum: Seeing the Possibilities2.
Features of the Project Approach: A Framework for Learning3. Making a Start on Context: Planning in Context4.
Phase 1. Launching a Project: Students’ Initial Understandings5.
Phase 2. Developing a Project: Building the Knowledge6.
Phase 3. Concluding a Project: Presenting the Work
Annotation
The course focuses on learning the principles of project methods based on the principles of educational progressivism in the U.S. already formulated in the 19th Century (John Dewey). However underscores thinking behind, bound for project method, as found on all major educators, J.A.
Comenius (Schola ludus), J.H. Pestalozzi (Swiss educator educated kids to the acquiring of practical activities), etc.
The course focuses on the definition and specific motivation to the solution of projects motivated true the need to challenge. The project stresses effects of the intensive learning and the principles of pupils and teachers engagement in the acquisition of knowledge and skills.