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In my education as a teacher, I have learned the importance of active learning and problem based learning in the classroom. I also reflect in my time as a student, and in retrospective I learned the most when I was challenged with applying my knowledge in to a problem or a case study. This is …

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Ludwig Wittgenstein is an Austrian-French philosopher working in the tradition of analytical philosophy. The mentionability of Wittgenstein is, he subverted the norms of thinking philosophically. According to Wittgenstein, philosophy is all about doing problems, that is, if you say you are doing philosophy, it means, you are doing a real life problem. In other words, […]

  We are bombarded with a lot of information everyday, but  how much do we really process and store in our mind? The answer lies in the fact that ow a particular piece of information was presented to us and did we participate in learning the piece that was being taught. These principles are very …

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The idea problem-based pedagogy (PBL) is an idea that needs to be practiced more in all rungs of education. PBL has been described as a learning style that utilizes real world problems and solutions as teaching tools. For example if a teacher wanted to teach a student about engineering, a real world problem such as …

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This week’s readings on project-based learning and case-based learning sparked a lot of interest in how I want to teach one day as a full professor or graduate student in charge of organizing my class content. I believe that problem-based learning objectives help students contextualize their learning into long-term application that can help prepare ourContinue reading “Long-Term Study Abroad as PBL”

This week’s readings focused on case-based and problem-based learning.  A Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) proposes that “Students learn best by constructing solutions to open-ended, complex, and problematic activities with classmates, rather than listening passively to lectures.” This week’s readings led me to reflect on my own experiences with problem-based learning […]

I am going to start this post off with a YAAAAAAAS! I am super excited to be writing about problem based learning and case-based learning because this is my bailiwick! As both a student of education and a counselor, this is the bread and butter of how we learn our trade – particularly in counselorContinue reading “Inhabiting the Liminal Spaces”

This week in Contemporary Pedagogy, we were tasked to investigate case/problem-based learning. I was curious to learn about the similarities and differences of case-based and problem-based learning.  I discovered case-based learning (CBL); students develop analytical thinking and reflective judgment by reading and discussing complex, real-life scenarios (Foran, 2001).  This methodology is used in counselor education. Continue reading “A Real-World Problem: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health in College Students”

I love the idea of case-based pedagogy as a style of learning. Too often have I sat in a college class and wondered the relevancy of the material to the real world. Case studies allow students to connect what’s going on in their lives to their education, and ultimately get the most out of the …

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In reading and thinking about case-based pedagogy, I found myself reading the word “case” so often that I lost all faith that I knew what it meant. What is a case, and what makes it different from an example, word problem, or open-ended question? I sometimes find it helpful to try and chase the history […]