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2025 Vol.60, Issue 3

Research Article

An Integrated Approach to Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) and LEGO Serious Play (LSP) for Learner-Centered Creative Problem-Solving Learning in Geography Education

지리교육에서 학습자 주도형 창의적 문제해결 학습을 위한 도전기반 학습(CBL)과 레고 시리어스 플레이(LSP)의 통합적 접근

Jong-Ho Leea
,
Wonseob Songb
,
Chul-Ki Choc*
이 종호a
,
송 원섭b
,
조 철기c*
aProfessor, Department of Geography Education, Gyeongsang National University
bAssociate Professor, Department of Geography Education, Jeju National University
cProfessor, Department of Geography Education, Kyungpook National University
a경상국립대학교 사범대학 지리교육과 교수
b제주대학교 사범대학 지리교육과 부교수
c경북대학교 사범대학 지리교육과 교수
*Corresponding Author
30 June 2025. pp. 295-305
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Abstract

‘Challenge-based learning (CBL)’ and ‘LEGO Serious Play (LSP)’ are learner-centered creative problem-solving learning models that have recently attracted attention. This study proposes a new teaching and learning strategy that integrates the two learning models. To this end, CBL and LSP were theoretically considered, and an integrated learning model was designed by deriving the complementary properties of the methodology. As a result of the theoretical review, it was confirmed that CBL emphasized the problem-solving process led by learners and the subject selection centered on wicked problems, and LSP focused on cooperative learning through horizontal communication between participants. Accepting the advantages of the two learning models in this study, a learning process was designed based on the CBL model in the problem setting and problem-solving stages, and an integrated learning model that actively utilizes the LSP model in the problem-solving stage was designed. As an example of a class for this, a practical teaching plan using the industrial cluster theory of economic geography was presented. Through this study, the authors emphasize that the integrated approach of the two learning models is useful as a new teaching and learning strategy for improving not only spatial thinking skills required in geography education but also creative and collaborative problem-solving skills, and that theoretical and empirical studies on this need to be conducted in the future.

Keywords
challenge-based learning
LEGO Serious Play
geography education
creative problem solving
cooperative learning

‘도전기반 학습(CBL)’과 ‘레고 시리어스 플레이(LSP)’는 최근에 주목받고 있는 학습자 중심의 창의적 문제해결 학습 모델이다. 본 연구에서는 두 가지 학습 모델을 통합적으로 접근한 새로운 교수·학습 전략을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해 CBL과 LSP를 이론적으로 고찰하고, 방법론의 상호보완적 속성을 도출하여 통합적인 학습 모델을 설계하였다. 이론적 검토 결과, CBL은 사회적 난제를 중심으로 한 주제 선정 및 학습자가 주도하는 문제해결 과정을 강조하며, LSP는 학습자 간 수평적 의사소통을 통한 협동 학습에 중점을 두고 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 두 학습 모델의 장점을 수용하여, 문제 설정 및 문제해결 단계에서는 CBL 모델을 기반으로 학습 과정을 설계하고, 문제해결 과정에서 LSP 모델을 적극적으로 활용하는 통합적 학습 모델을 설계하였다. 이를 위한 수업 예시로는 경제지리학의 산업 클러스터 이론을 활용한 실천적 수업 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구를 통해 필자들은 두 학습 모델의 통합적 접근이 지리교육에서 요구되는 공간적 사고력 향상뿐만 아니라 창의적 및 협력적 문제해결 능력 향상을 위한 새로운 교수･학습 전략으로서의 유용성이 있으며, 이에 대한 이론적 및 경험적 연구들이 후속적으로 수행될 필요가 있음을 강조한다.

키워드
도전기반 학습
레고 시리어스 플레이
지리교육
창의적 문제해결
협력적 학습
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  • Publisher :The Korean Geographical Society
  • Publisher(Ko) :대한지리학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
  • Journal Title(Ko) :대한지리학회지
  • Volume : 60
  • No :3
  • Pages :295-305
  • Received Date : 2025-04-09
  • Revised Date : 2025-05-04
  • Accepted Date : 2025-05-07
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.22776/kgs.2025.60.3.295
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