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- Concerns about students lack of problem solving skills.
- Evolving higher education standards.
- Recognition of the need for authentic assessment.
- New ideas about how the brain functions and how students learn.
- Understanding that emerging knowledge is neither fixed nor universal.
- A movement to institute participatory, democratic education.
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- Students focus on learning facts, principles, and skills rather
than how to problem-solve and think critically.
- “Intellectual elites” choose traditional learning material, and
often neglect diversity in their selection.
- Material used often does not reference real life.
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- Themes that blend pop and high culture emerge from student-teacher
partnership planning.
- Multiple disciplines are used to research the theme. They function
as the tools used to build common knowledge rather than ends unto
themselves.
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