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International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development

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Exploring Dominant Approach for Teaching Circular Economy

Norzaharah Ab Hamid, Fathiyah Mohd Kamaruzaman, Mohamad Sattar Rasul

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARPED/v13-i1/20872

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The delivery of the circular economy concept requires a specific teaching method to ensure student understanding. A good teaching method can stimulate students' creative and critical thinking towards circular economy. However, there are still many teachers who do not understand effective teaching methods in teaching the circular economy. Therefore, this study aims to explore teaching methods used by teachers all around the world in teaching circular economy. This study uses a comprehensive systematic review on teaching circular economy approaches. In this study, we used the PRISMA approach to find primary data based on several keywords. Based on advanced searching on Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar we found n=22 relevant articles for this study. Our findings show project-based learning is the most dominant and widely practiced circular economy teaching method. In the other hand, active based learning, problem-based learning, games and case study are the teaching methods that are always practiced by teachers to teach circular economy.

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