LEARNING THEORIES AND TEACHING METHODS IN SCIENCE

This course introduces student teachers to the role of science in the society and its importance in the school curriculum, the nature of science, scientific method (processes of science), inductive & deductive logic as well as science as a process and a product. It also deals with theories of learning: behaviourism(Pavlov) and constructivism (Piaget, Ausubel, Bruner and Vygotsky). Methods of teaching science, laboratory work, investigation, inquiry, discovery and others will also be explored.