Servant and Dewar (2015)

With a focus on Malaysia, the first country in Asia to use Problem-Based Learning (PBL), this article explores the impact this has had on tutors. Using a qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method, data from two focus groups of PBL tutors was examined. The first group came from a medicine discipline in Kuala Lumpur and the second from an engineering discipline in Johor Bahru. The four key themes the authors found were: (1) Tutor perceptions are embedded in the context of Malaysian hierarchical social structures, (2) tutors recount a rewarding but challenging move to PBL, (3) tutors display widely different attitudes towards the role of expertise in PBL, and (4) tutors attempt to construct explanations and rationalize their emotional experiences with PBL.

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Servant, V. F., & Dewar, E. F. (2015). Investigating Problem-Based Learning Tutorship in Medical and Engineering Programs in Malaysia. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 9(2).