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Dangers and Difficulties of the Project Method and How to Overcome Them: I. Introductory Statement: Definition of Terms

by William Heard Kilpatrick - 1921

The particular word, project, is of small consequence; the idea or point of view back of the word is the important element.1 We understand the term project to refer to any unit of purposeful experience, any instance of purposeful activity where the dominating purpose, as an inner urge, (1) fixes the aim of the action, (2) guides its process, and (3) furnishes its drive, its inner motivation.

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 22 Number 4, 1921, p. 283-287
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 3982, Date Accessed: 4/3/2020 11:46:28 PM

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