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Problem-based learning has a long history of successful use in disciplines such as business, law and medicine. In 2005, a team at the University of Huddersfield received government funding to develop the technique, and a range of related resources, for teaching politics. This article describes the experience of putting these resources into practice with a range of different student cohorts.
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Although the initial plan was for this second group of students to be cross-disciplinary, and the cases were developed with this in mind, in the pilot year, students of criminology and sociology were not available.
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Craig, J., Hale, S. Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Politics. Eur Polit Sci 7, 165–174 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2008.6
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