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Teaching The Learning Of Concepts In Primary Science

The increasing amount of the new knowledge and demand for the non-routine work competencies at the beginning of the 21. Century present the need for changing paradigma in teaching and learning for the development of knowledge societies. In this complex issue we are confronting the main questions of current educational change: How to successfully increase the amount of accumulating knowledge and maintain the creativity already present in children's minds? How to bring together teacher-centered and student-centered paradigm? Is it possible to unite the knowledge building capacity with competency and learning outcomes without extensive application of testing, both formative and summative, in-class and national? How could we overcome the motivational gap between students? In this presentation the main shift in education for the aquiring of new concepts by acknowledging of child capabilities will be proposed in the field of science teaching for primary schools. Similar as cognitivists do not separate the knowing-what from knowing-how, neither should educators. Basis for either is conceptual understaning. The main goal for education thus remains to teach the learning of concepts based on natural conceptual system in the brain.

conceptual understanding; primary science; learning concepts

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