Enhancing PBL authenticity by engaging STEM professional volunteers
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| Názov: | Enhancing PBL authenticity by engaging STEM professional volunteers |
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| Autori: | Nicholas, Celeste, Scribner, J. Adam |
| Zdroj: | Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning; Vol. 15 No. 2 (2021) ; 1541-5015 |
| Informácie o vydavateľovi: | IUScholarWorks |
| Rok vydania: | 2021 |
| Zbierka: | IUScholarWorks Journals (Indiana University) |
| Predmety: | authenticity, STEM professional volunteers, rural education, STEM outreach, community partnerships, Problem-Based Learning |
| Popis: | The article profiles a project addressing a central issue in reform-driven STEM education – the need to align educational experiences with real-world STEM. We profile an interdisciplinary project which aimed for authenticity by: 1) purposefully designing an authentic PBL project and 2) incorporating STEM professional volunteers as facilitators. Volunteers enhanced authentic elements of the project task (e.g., open-ended task, accountability) and context (e.g., autonomy, collaboration). Volunteers alleviated pedagogical barriers to PBL – their expertise allowed both volunteers and teachers to take up the facilitator roles foundational to PBL. Professional volunteers can play vital roles in STEM capacity-building initiatives, including those seeking to broaden participation. Further research is needed to understand how to best prepare and utilize volunteers in a variety of classroom roles, including as PBL facilitators. |
| Druh dokumentu: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Popis súboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Relation: | https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijpbl/article/view/28734/37348; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijpbl/article/view/28734 |
| DOI: | 10.14434/ijpbl.v15i2.28734 |
| Dostupnosť: | https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijpbl/article/view/28734 https://doi.org/10.14434/ijpbl.v15i2.28734 |
| Rights: | Copyright (c) 2022 Celeste Nicholas, J. Adam Scribner ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
| Prístupové číslo: | edsbas.F580D41F |
| Databáza: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | The article profiles a project addressing a central issue in reform-driven STEM education – the need to align educational experiences with real-world STEM. We profile an interdisciplinary project which aimed for authenticity by: 1) purposefully designing an authentic PBL project and 2) incorporating STEM professional volunteers as facilitators. Volunteers enhanced authentic elements of the project task (e.g., open-ended task, accountability) and context (e.g., autonomy, collaboration). Volunteers alleviated pedagogical barriers to PBL – their expertise allowed both volunteers and teachers to take up the facilitator roles foundational to PBL. Professional volunteers can play vital roles in STEM capacity-building initiatives, including those seeking to broaden participation. Further research is needed to understand how to best prepare and utilize volunteers in a variety of classroom roles, including as PBL facilitators. |
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| DOI: | 10.14434/ijpbl.v15i2.28734 |