An Educational Benefit of Integrating Cooperative Learning with Project Adventure

This short paper is to review the relationship between Project Adventure (PA) and Cooperative Learning (CL). Both are effective pedagogies for fostering children’s self-directed learning. Promoting children’s self-directed learning is a critical issue of newly revised the course of study 2017. How PA and CL work to develop children’s self-directed learning is investigated. Between PA and CL, there are identified several common elements for desired learning outcomes, such as setting a mutual goal among the team members, respecting their choice and challenge to achieve the goal, processing their collaboration, and reflecting successful experiences for their learning and further progress. A benefit of integrating CL with PA is argued to promote children’s self-directed learning from the view of the study of cooperation in education.departmental bulletin pape