Developing New Life Skills through Project-Based Learning in Modern Schools
Abstract:
As modern schools move to adopt more projects through new approaches, project-based learning appears as a method that disengages new modes and practices in the teaching/learning cycle. Today, this method has gained greater popularity in the educational sphere as many schools implement it as a tool to develop students’ learning and promote their competencies through exploring, creating, and constructing solutions to problems. By using project-based learning in schools to engage learners in life-long activities, teachers tend to exhibit an important opportunity to develop new skills. At the heart of these skills, the community of practice stands as self-directed learning in implementing project-based learning, which aims to promote the efficiency of twenty-first-century leaders within schools. This paper examines important life skills that many schools wish to incorporate to develop new attitudes within and outside school life by adopting project-based learning. It attempts to show the challenges of such implementation and how life skills progress. Hence, the paper adopts a meta-analysis technique, whereby a special examination of the various studies that have already been conducted comes up with conclusions. Because of its diagnostic nature, this method allows the researcher to explore some pitfalls that provide potential opportunities for alternative conclusions that need to be adopted in structured approaches. The major conclusions drawn from this paper are qualitatively discussed.
