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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 - 1921The 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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- William Kilpatrick
Professor of Education, Teachers College
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