Post on 23-Jan-2015
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Dr. Lalit Kishore
Science: what?Body of knowledge about the nature and the
world based onCause-and-effect relationshipScientific method, measurability, reliability,
objectivity and experimentation Verifiable results and universally valid
principlesDynamic and tentative
ArtAesthetical skills made spontaneous with
practice, innovation and creativity
• Subjective codification as content, processes and techniques
• More related to humanities, language arts, performing arts, human actions with over-training.
• Art uses experimentation with subjectivity, hence it is a pseudo-science’
Three sciencesPure and hard sciences
Soft sciences
Pseudo-sciences
School science educationSchool science educationConcept Attainment: Generalizations from observations, relationships and similar examples by excluding non-examples
Content and processes of science
Rational and logical thinking
Hues of science educationHues of science education• Part of environment studies at elementary
education level• General science – science for all at high
school level• Streaming: Physical sciences and life sciences
at senior secondary level
Bad pedagogy• Systems and behavioural approach:
• Lectures,• media, • demonstration,• competitions, ranking, and • mechanical practice for content acquisition
GOOD PEDAGOGYConcept attainment modelExperiential and activity-based learning to
construct knowledgeProcess-based learning of scienceInvestigations and experimentationCooperative and participatory learningCreative and interesting ways of
memorization
Activity rooms and labs in schoolPre –lab science experiences through out-
door world and common materials. Activities with environmental resources and readily available materials at elementary school level and project work
Enquiry, investigations, formal lab-based experiments at secondary school level
Pedagogy-centricityPedagogy: Science of teaching and learning –
a soft scienceContexualized teaching-learning experiments,
analyzed interventions, classroom instructional innovations with outcomes, instructional problem solving
Soft-science synthesis with hard science as a discipline
Pedagogy: Origin and meaning• Child's leader…leading to learning…Greek
word: Pedagogue• Viewing classroom as an activity and
educational experimentation system with a focus on context and method of teaching by assuming children as co-constructor of knowledge
• Along with content, the understanding of learning processes and situation is induced in both the teacher and learner
CruxBring pedagogy to the centre stage of
classroom teaching to make instruction a soft science which is as dynamic as pure science wherein refinement and reconstruction of knowledge are on-going processes.