Soft systems approach to project-based education and its practice in a Japanese university

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-105

  Chujo, Hisako ^a   Kijima, Kyoichi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Educational methodology; Learning; Project based education; SSM

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGIES; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES; LEARNING; PROJECT-BASED; SOFT SYSTEMS APPROACH; SSM; UNIVERSITY EDUCATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EDUCATION;

EID: 32344441386     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.709     Document Type: Article

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