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CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES
Title: CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES
Category: Literature
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CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES
PART A: "INQUIRY" APPROACHES TO TEACHING SCIENCE
Definition of "inquiry"
The essence of the inquiry approach is to teach pupils to handle situations
Which they encounter when dealing with the physical world by using
Techniques, which are applied by, research scientists. Inquiry means that
Teachers design situations so that pupils are caused to employ procedures
Research scientists use to recognise problems, to ask questions, to apply
Investigational procedures, and to provide consistent descriptions,
Predictions, and …showed first 75 words of 7557 total…
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"discovery" they actually experience in class.
It is worth commenting that most science teachers who use the term
"discovery" with respect to a teaching approach could NOT recount the
professional knowledge embedded in the description of discovery above, or
debate the issues and conflicts in the points of view in the readings
provided. It follows then, that most science teachers who talk about
"discovery" literally do not know what they are talking about.
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