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

Kirsten Jæger; Annie Aarup Jensen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18842-9_8

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

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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).

Original language	Danish
Title of host publication	Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University.
Editors	Annie Aarup Jensen, Diana Stentoft, Ole Ravn
Number of pages	11
Place of Publication	Cham, Schweiz
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2019
Pages	89-101
Chapter	8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-18841-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-18842-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18842-9_8
Publication status	Published - 2019

Series	Innovation and Change in Professional Education
ISSN	1572-1957

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Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University
Jensen, A. A. (ed.), Stentoft, D. (ed.) & Ravn, O. (ed.), 2019, 1 ed. Springer. 168 p. (Innovation and Change in Professional Education, Vol. 18).
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Problem-based Projects, Learning and Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education
Jensen, A. A., Ravn, O. & Stentoft, D., 2019, Interdisciplinarity and problem-based learning in Higher Education: Research and perspectives from Aalborg University. Jensen, A. A., Stentoft, D. & Ravn, O. (eds.). Springer, p. 9-19 11 p. (Innovation and Change in Professional Education, Vol. 18).
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Jæger, K., & Jensen, A. A. (2019). Opening the PBL Game: Problem Construction in Interdisciplinary Project Work in Multicultural Groups. In A. A. Jensen, D. Stentoft, & O. Ravn (Eds.), Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: : Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University. (pp. 89-101). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18842-9_8

Jæger, Kirsten ; Jensen, Annie Aarup. / Opening the PBL Game : Problem Construction in Interdisciplinary Project Work in Multicultural Groups. Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: : Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University.. editor / Annie Aarup Jensen ; Diana Stentoft ; Ole Ravn. Cham, Schweiz : Springer, 2019. pp. 89-101 (Innovation and Change in Professional Education).

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Opening the PBL Game: Problem Construction in Interdisciplinary Project Work in Multicultural Groups. / Jæger, Kirsten ; Jensen, Annie Aarup.
Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: : Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University.. ed. / Annie Aarup Jensen; Diana Stentoft; Ole Ravn. Cham, Schweiz: Springer, 2019. p. 89-101 (Innovation and Change in Professional Education).

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Jæger K , Jensen AA. Opening the PBL Game: Problem Construction in Interdisciplinary Project Work in Multicultural Groups. In Jensen AA, Stentoft D, Ravn O, editors, Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: : Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University.. Cham, Schweiz: Springer. 2019. p. 89-101. (Innovation and Change in Professional Education). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18842-9_8

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

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Interdisciplinarity and Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education: Research and Perspectives from Aalborg University

Problem-based Projects, Learning and Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education

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