Abstract
The research refers to the use of project method by High School students who were attending the third grade of High School in Rhodes, Greece. We did an investigation in order to determine the improvement of students’ attitudes and views towards the subject of Arts using the project method. The teaching intervention had interdisciplinary characteristics and the subject of the project was “the acropolis of Filerimos”. Questionnaires were given to the students before and after the teaching intervention which was implemented during the first quarter of the school year 2014-2015. The results showed that the use of project method vindicated the goal of the study and improved significantly the students’ views and attitudes towards the subject of Arts.
Highlights
In contrary with the traditional educational models that are based on the cleavage of knowledge, the interdisciplinary teaching focuses on a holistic view of the conquest of new knowledge using a multifaceted approach of teaching
The result of t-test is 0.000 which shows that there is a significant difference between the beginning and the end of the teaching intervention with the use of the method project
During the first quarter of the school year 2014-2015 a teaching intervention in the subject of Arts with the use of the project method was realized in Rhodes, Greece
Summary
In contrary with the traditional educational models that are based on the cleavage of knowledge, the interdisciplinary teaching focuses on a holistic view of the conquest of new knowledge using a multifaceted approach of teaching. For example a group of teachers and students decides to deal with a specific topic, plans its own program of actions, and handles the plan until the end of the project (Starko, 1995; Kampouropoulou et al, 2013) Result of this collective work can be the publication of a book, an event, a report, an exhibition, etc. All members need to comment their proposals and agree on a final form of the project and contribute to the conduct of the work These three processes, namely the freedom of members to suggest a topic, the joint configuration and its realization, are the basic characteristics of a creative project and, if it is realized properly, the teaching experience acquired by students is a significant source of learning (Kampouropoulou et al, 2012). By applying the appropriate interdisciplinary project with Arts as the main thematic axis, the emphasis on traditional teaching methodology is reduced and the students’ attention shifts to concepts and processes encountered in their real lives (Scott, 1990)
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