Views of the Secondary Education Teachers on the Notion and Function of the Project Method

Athanasios Dimos

(Hellenic Ministry of Education-Secondary school, Greece)

Abstract: The present research aims to review the views of teachers on the notion and function of the project method. The research adopted the qualitative methodology approach. The analysis of the interviews given by teachers resulted in three general classes of personal positions and views relevant to “what the project method means for them”: (a) the project method is conceived as a teaching and learning procedure, (b) it has specific structure and (c) its contribution in the development of the personality and skills of students is significant. The views of the teachers who participated in the research on the notion and function of the project method correspond to those expressed by the various representatives of the method, as these are stated in the literature. The project method is an innovative teaching method that can contribute in the redevelopment of the educational school operation and reverse a series of concepts that hogtie school life in a status of inaction, indifference and competitiveness.

Key words: teachers’ views, project method, secondary education