Using Project-Based Learning Pedagogies in African Higher Education

Abstract

For many, project-based learning (PBL) seems to be the emerging opportunity to restore the missing link and empower higher education with what it takes to assume its role in society. Specifically, it aims at establishing weaknesses in PBLs features in African higher education and how best these can be tackled. Furthermore, in a broader sense, this analysis aims at considering current imperative shifts in the structure of higher education to adjust to unprecedented changes in the world of work due to the already mentioned crisis. The chapter makes use of published materials to tap these weaknesses and show the way forward. The author recommends innovative pedagogical arrangements in higher education PBLs as the effective way in which higher education institutions in Africa can avert the mismatch between theoretical and practical knowledge.