Characteristics and structure of Project Work

This page is about the main characteristics of project work. It is known it supports cooperation rather than competition between students, aims at relevant knowledge and skills that can be applied in everyday life as well as combines cognitive, affective and motor dimensions of learning. Furthermore, it tries to build on and make use of individual skills and competencies of students and one of the most important features is that it relates school to out-of-school life. Additionally, it can motivate the initiation of cross-curricular activities and stimulates motivation of both students and teachers.

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