Cognitive constructivist way of teaching scientific and technical contents

Zuljan, Darjo (author), Valenčič Zuljan, Milena (author), Pejić Papak, Petra (author)

For pupils to obtain high-quality and permanent knowledge, it is important that the teaching of scientific and technical contents is based on cognitive constructivist approach. We carried out a research, during which we asked three research questions, on a sample of 167 class teachers in the Republic of Slovenia. We wanted to find out: how often class teachers included elements typical of cognitive constructivist approach; was the frequency of using elements of cognitive constructivist teaching model linked to the teacher’s concern for their own professional development, and was the frequency of using elements of cognitive constructivist teaching model linked to the factors, such as the teacher’s estimated importance, difficulty and necessity of Science and Technics, the assessment of their own competence and professional enthusiasm. Data were collected with three scales: ways of teaching scientific and technical contents; attitude to scientific and technical contents and teaching and components of professional development. Data were processed according to descriptive and inferential statistics. The research showed that the formulation and verification of hypotheses, two important elements in view of cognitive constructivist teaching model, were less often represented. With statistically significant higher frequency they were organized by teachers, who rated their competence higher, were more enthusiastic and cared more about their professional development.

• Language: English
• Keywords: cognitive constructivist teaching model, science and technics, competence, professional enthusiasm, professional development
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 23-36
• Numbering: Vol. 9, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126429
• UDC: 37.091.12:005.963
• ISSN on article: 2334-8496
• DOI: 10.23947/2334-8496-2021-9-1-23-36
• COBISS.SI-ID: 60468227
• Publication date in RUL: 20.05.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of cognitive research in science, engineering and education
• Publisher: The Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education
• ISSN: 2334-8496
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523566617

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: znanost, kompetence, tehnika, učni model