Contextual Teaching and Learning: Preparing Students for the New Economy. The Highlight Zone: Research @ Work No. 5.

By Robert G. Berns, Patricia M. Erickson. 2001

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Contextual Teaching and Learning for Practitioners (2008, background): “…of teaching and learning that helps teachers relate subject matter content to real world situations; and motivates students to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers; and engage in the hard work that learning requires[1].”
Facilitating Student Learning Through Contextualization (2011, background): “…to try to overcome such obstacles if explicit connections are made in class between basic skills and personally meaningful content applications (Berns & Erickson, 2001; Bond, 2004; Boroch et al., 2007; Guthrie, Anderson, Alao, & Rinehart, 1999; Johnson, 2002; National Council for Workforce…”
CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH TO TEACHING WRITING (2012, background): “There are some teaching strategies associated with CTL approach as proposed by Berns & Erickson (2001) as follows: Problem based learning, cooperative learning, service learning, work based learning, project based learning, and react strategies.”