TEACHING METHOD ADOPTED BY BASIC SCIENCE TEACHER AND IMPLICATION FOR CHILDREN CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SCIENCE
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY One aim of science teaching is to enhance pupils’ understanding of scientific concepts. Another is to develop children’s capacity to understand scientific procedures and to investigate scientifically. Understanding is a mental state, the product of mental processes which infer relationships between elements of information (Johnson-Laird, 1983, 1987; Halford, 1993). Teachers cannot give learners this mental state but can attempt to support the ...
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