ScAR’s Activities Under the Lens of Pedagogy: Overview of the Pedagogical Approaches Underlying the Project

This chapter brings back the activities of the ScAR project to some didactic paradigms that allow them to be interpreted, namely active learning, authentic learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning, project-based learning. It turns out that ScAR has taken a holistic rather than surgical approach, by proposing multi-faced and complex activities instead of focusing on specific, ‘isolated’ aspects. The two main findings are that collaboration has played a crucial role in most activities, fostering motivation, inclusion and the acquisition of important benefits connected to group work. Second, that project-based learning, widely adopted, was also a powerful trigger for the positive academic impact of the project.