Învățarea opticii geometrice prin metoda cercetării științifice

Abstract

The work states that the necessity for constructivist teaching methods comes from the need for a scientific literate population. The series of constructivist paradigms, from the one of active learning till to one of understanding and one of learning by being, is analysed from the point of view of visible teaching and learning theory, presenting in the same time the impact of each approach on academic success of school students. The author emphasizes that the impact of learning by being approach is three times higher than the impact of usual, conventional teaching approach. The article proposes a structure of inquiry – based science education projects for the chapter of Geometrical Optics and, through project logical framework, presents the correlation between learning objectives and learning activities and their impact on students’ personality.