EVALUATION OF CHANGES IN PEDAGOGIC OPINIONS WITHIN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING OF NATURAL SCIENCES IN BASIC SCHOOL
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2009, Vol 17, Issue 11
Abstract
After Latvia joined the united European economy space, more and more attention has been paid to development of natural sciences and technologies. These are natural sciences that teach the student to observe the nature and its phenomena objectively and without prejudice, to analyse and understand them, to formulate conclusions and foresee results. Children are investigators by nature and they actively search for information about their surroundings. They try to conceive of their environment with help of observation and experiment. Research work is an important and unsophisticated natural approach in teaching natural sciences in school. Natural sciences give everything that is necessary to develop and deepen students’ understanding about the surrounding world. They facilitate students’ thirst for knowledge and critical thinking; they depict relations between human beings and nature. Qualitative process of teaching of natural sciences at school gives students a possibility to acquire comprehensive basic knowledge and skills in the sphere of science contributing to development of the student, who will become a technologically educated member of the society, who will be encouraged to move forward in the sphere of science and technology. In order to promote the quality of education, the reform of basic education is being realised. The basis of the reform in subjects of natural sciences is orientation and direction of study content towards research work. In the article the author examines changes of pedagogic opinions in the process of teaching natural sciences, analyses students’ points of view about the progress of acquisition of profciency in natural sciences during the reform of content of basic education content. The aim of the research is to fnd out problems occurring in the process of studying of natural sciences in basic school and to emphasise facilitating development of students’ profciency in natural sciences. Research methods: examination and analysis of literature, inquiring. Results of the research: the author gathered information about today’s teaching process in subjects of natural sciences, evaluated the process of acquisition of natural science in basic schools in Latvia.
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Janis Dzerviniks
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