Student negotiated learning, student agency and General Capabilities in the 21st Century: The DeLorean Project

Autor: Robert Steffler, Shelley Dole, Catherine Thiele, M.J. Scheepers, Peter Grainger
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: The Australian Educational Researcher. 46:425-447
ISSN: 2210-5328
0311-6999
DOI: 10.1007/s13384-018-0287-6
Popis: This paper reports students’ perceptions of their learning of 21st century skills through a novel approach to delivery of the school program in Year 10. For 1 day per week, all Year 10 students at this school participate in The DeLorean Project, where they create, design and implement their own real-world projects with the assistance of teachers as facilitators. Student attitudes towards participation in the initiative were surveyed and analysed. Results indicated that students’ awareness of skills associated with the General Capabilities of the Australian Curriculum were explicitly developed as a result of participation in the DeLorean Project, particularly critical and creative thinking, ethical behaviour, and personal and social capability. Student voice in relation to the project gives rise to implications for further development and design of DeLorean as new approach to teaching and learning in Australian schools.
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