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

Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice
Virginie F C Servant-Miklos

Abstract

This paper sheds light on an intellectual dispute on the purpose of problem-based learning that took place in the 1970s between two major figures in the history of PBL: Howard S Barrows from McMaster University and Henk Schmidt from Maastricht University. Using historical evidence from archive materials, oral history accounts and contemporary publications, the paper shows that at the core of the dispute was their divergent understanding of cognitive psychology. On the one hand, Barrows espoused hypothetico-deduction, and on the other, Henk Schmidt was a proponent of constructivism. The paper shows how the dispute played out both in the scientific literature and in the divergent practice of PBL at McMaster and Maastricht and continues to affect the way PBL is done today.

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Oct 11, 2019·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Liesbeth Noordegraaf-EelensGera Noordzij
Aug 29, 2019·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Alan NevilleRobert White
Nov 15, 2019·Clinical Rheumatology·James D Katz, D Ted George
Jun 4, 2020·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Thérése F EderFabian Huettig
Oct 16, 2019·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Lisette Wijnia, Virginie F C Servant-Miklos
Aug 18, 2020·Medical Teacher·S W MargoliusA L Wilson-Delfosse
Dec 14, 2019·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Virginie F C Servant-MiklosDiana H J M Dolmans
Oct 17, 2019·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Peter C Wyer
Nov 28, 2020·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Henk G Schmidt, Silvia Mamede
Nov 29, 2020·Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice·Geoffrey Norman

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