Using effective student-centred activities to meet current challenges at Austrian schools

Abstract

One way of facing the manifold current challenges in the Austrian school system lies in employing project- oriented ways of teaching and learning. One the one hand, these have to be understood as being very complex; on the other hand, the use of the term ‘project’ can be regarded as overused, i.e., inflationary: Many methods are inadequately referred to as projects, thus names are played with. The following paper systematically shows up the opportunities this teaching and learning method boasts, it outlines how the enhancement of competences and learning processes can be initiated, and also discusses the problems and limitations that may arise.