Opening the PBL Game: Problem Construction in Interdisciplinary Project Work in Multicultural Groups

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Abstract

This chapter investigates problem-based learning in multicultural interdisciplinary groups. It focuses on the ‘opening’ of PBL project work: the construction of an interdisciplinarily defined problem that is expected to guide the research process for the project group. The chapter discusses the parts of interdisciplinary, group-organized project work that may be specifically challenging for students raised in non-Western educational cultures: criticality, student direction of project work, and the openness characterizing the construction of a research problem. In the chapter it is suggested that PBL can be seen as an epistemic game (Collins and Ferguson 1993). In multicultural project groups, this epistemic game both demands and fosters epistemic fluency (Goodyear & Zenios 2007).
OriginalsprogDansk
TitelInterdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University.
RedaktørerAnnie Aarup Jensen, Diana Stentoft, Ole Ravn
Antal sider11
UdgivelsesstedCham, Schweiz
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2019
Sider89-101
Kapitel8
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-030-18841-2
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-030-18842-9
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2019
NavnInnovation and Change in Professional Education
ISSN1572-1957

Emneord

  • Problem-Based Learning
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Multicultural groups

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