Yenni Idrus
Universitas Negeri Padang yennikk@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The world has growth rapidly. Our daily life then experiences much advancement. These advancements also influence the fashion sector. Designers should follow the people’s desire on fashion. As the future designers, the college students of fashion department should be smart have creativity in creating designs. They should be used to understand the fashion trends and issues. They should also be used to produce the qualified creative designs. Creativity is a thinking pattern or imaginative idea coming spontaneously, artistic, scientific, and freshly new. Then, the implementation of the right instruction in fashion education or in the learning process is a need. This study focuses on a review of the relevant literatures on project based learning to propose its benefits on fashion learning process. Project based learning is a student-centred form of instructions which is characterised by specific-context learning, active learning with goal-setting, real-world practices, and collaboration. This kind of instruction can help foster students’ self-regulated learning and promote their conceptual knowledge within a systematic process of real-world practices. Lectures of fashion department can implement the project based learning instruction in their classes. Through project based learning, students will be used to do real-world practices actively and collaboratively such that it will improve their creativity in fashion sector.
KEYWORDS: project based learning, fashion education, creativity