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Case Studies | Education Management | Albania | Volume 7 Issue 10, October 2018

The Way of School Democratization through Project based Learning

Dr. Shqipe Haxhihyseni Shyti ^[2] | Denaida Trungu Samarxhiu

Abstract: The research on this topic is a great achievement in the field education, considering the possibilities of democratization in the Albanian school. After the introduction, which presents the conditions which make this education possible and likeable in our schools, a thorough analysis of the literature on project based learning and history of PBL, is presented. Also, is done the comparison of student learning in an authoritarian classroom, versus a democratic classroom. The project based learning approach has been reviewed towards values in school democratization, but the research includes the evaluation of the practical study conducted in the school classes, on the possibilities this education offers for the democratization of the relations born in these classes. This is achieved by analyzing the experience of teachers in different schools who have tried to apply this kind of education in our schools. The thesis has achieved some results which will serve to all those educators who want to teach the new generations not only the intellectual skills but also the affective ones and can learn how to involve the whole social community in the education process to achieve the schools democratization. As a result we would have the schools we want, the way we want, schools which would educate the students with values of a democratic life.

Keywords: project based learning, the democratization of the schools, pre university education

Edition: Volume 7 Issue 10, October 2018,

Pages: 849 - 854