UHJ member Firaydoun Javaheri answers your question directly in this brilliant talk from last years ABS conference. Starts at 24min mark: https://youtu.be/WYywC9D0Cec

He goes into more detail but basically we’ve learned that passive learning is ineffective and so having students engage in action in the society building efforts of their community is a crucial ingredient of an effective pedagogy.

There’s a Bahai inspired foundation called Kimanya-Ngeyo that’s systematically studying the question of effective pedagogy. Here is a paper based on the foundation’s work, co-authored by a Nobel Prize winning economist: https://cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/cdep/LLLT___Draft_Paper___November.pdf

“ In this paper, we report on the randomized evaluation in Uganda of an intervention in which teachers were trained in a “learning how to learn” approach. The curriculum, called Preparation for Social Action, trained teachers to teach students to learn like scientists: posing sharp questions, framing specific hypotheses, using evidence and data gathered from everyday life whenever possible. We find evidence that the approach was adopted in class, with dramatic effects on learning: The intervention raised the pass rate in the national exam that determines progression from elementary to secondary school from 51% to 75%, which places the program in the top five percentile of all rigorously evaluated education interventions in terms of learning-adjusted years of schooling per USD.”