Problem solving skills versus knowledge acquisition: the historical dispute that split problem-based learning into two camps

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 619-635

  Servant Miklos, Virginie F C ^a,b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constructivism; History; Hypothetico deduction; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARROW (SWINE); HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION CENTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKILL; CONFLICT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HISTORY; MEDICAL EDUCATION;

CURRICULUM; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

EID: 85047837431     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: 15731677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-018-9835-0     Document Type: Article

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