Dilemma-based Learning in Primary School (PDF)

Providing the skills children require to be active participants in their communitiesDilemma-based Learning in Primary School is an exciting new resource that is designed to help your pupils gain a deeper understanding of the world and how their decisions affect it. It provides a framework for collaborative learning, encouraging learners to explore and understand a dilemma and seek the wisest solution through a process of structured conversation.The approach can be applied to any dilemma that might be encountered - this might be in literature, PSHE and citizenship, during historical or geographical exploration, in scientific understanding or personal experience. Dilemma-based learning is designed to help children and young people learn to grapple with the complexity and the multi-faceted nature of human experience. Through this approach children will learn the skills they require to take their part in the communities in which they live and in the wider society.With an introduction to key ideas and processes, staff development activities and examples of social and emotional dilemmas, Dilemma-based Learning in Primary School is the ideal resource to implement a dilemma-based approach to learning in your school. It can be used both as a tool for learning and as a way of tackling some of the dilemmas that children will face in their lives.