IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/itepro/9612117.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Integrating foldscopes into problem-based learning

Author

Listed:
  • Lounell White

    (North-West University)

Abstract

Skills required in the 21st century necessitate teaching methodologies that educators use to equip learners for practice. Problem-based learning (PBL) supports the development of 21st-century skills as it fosters critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and collaboration. The current research aimed to determine whether Life Sciences (Biology) methodology student teachers could integrate the use of foldscopes into PBL. The research found that student teachers experienced the foldscopes as exciting, and revealed positive responses for classroom use. Some student teachers were, however, unable to develop a PBL activity for their learners, and leaned towards traditional teaching methods. Cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) was used as lens to analyse the activity system and identify tensions within the system.

Suggested Citation

  • Lounell White, 2019. "Integrating foldscopes into problem-based learning," Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences 9612117, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:itepro:9612117
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/8th-teaching-education-conference/table-of-content/detail?cid=96&iid=029&rid=12117
    File Function: First version, 2019
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Elsa Mentz & Josef De Beer, 2017. "The Affordances Of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory As A Research Lens In Studying Education From A Socio-Economic Perspective," Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences 4907704, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Elsa Mentz & Josef De Beer, 2019. "The affordances of Change Laboratories for improved sustainability and impact of in-service teacher professional development programmes," Proceedings of Teaching and Education Conferences 9611967, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Cultural historical activity theory; Foldscopes; Self-directed learning; Problem-based learning; 21st-century skills;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:itepro:9612117. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.