Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Project Based Learning can pave the way for good managers in developing countries!




In countries where there are some serious social and economic problems, and where experts are hired from every part of the world for some development projects, students trained with PBL will be very useful in the future. I believe this because when in their youth they are soon trained to focus on problem or question that has meaning to them and get involved in problem or question that are actually tackled by adults at work or in the community, and requiring students to produce something that has personal and/or social value beyond the classroom. This inspired PBL behaviors can make students soon useful for the implementation of development project that can bring real change to communities and nations. Apart from that the ability to learn decision making and collaborative attitudes are some vital keys for managers and learning them early can help students awake their genius. They will look differently at social problems. Not as we did when we teachers were children, I mean passively. They will acquire as habit that when something is wrong, you take action to correct it whatever your age or field. This is very important and we must try to popularize this Project based Learning, in order to change the mind of the current youth for a better world tomorrow.

2 comments:

  1. Yes I believe so but it would be great if after having taught Project Work , when adult students would use them in their daily life.
    it seems that you are relying on politicians and the like and I am not so sure the thing will work.
    I do not have so many expectations as regards this side of the field. Politics will always be away from peoples needs and if they ever use projects it will be for their benefit.

    Elena

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  2. Hi Elena!
    You're right when saying that we must not rely on politics to implement this. I was not also targetting them directly even though i really believe that we need those in high position for a large application of all reform. The people can not start such a change in the education field without the support of those who can validate the content of every education content in a country.
    Kind regards!

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