Experimental cognition of the world by children. Unexploited opportunities of Polish primary schools

Acerca del conocimiento experimental del mundo por parte de los alumnos. Posibilidades no aprovechadas de la Escuela Primaria Polaca

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https://doi.org/10.18239/ensayos.v35i2.2373

Abstract

School, particularly primary school, plays special and unique role in education. It joins together teachers and students, in order to show children and youths complex reality of the world. The process of education implemented in the following institution can reflect to knowledge transmission or can be based on transaction model. Education is stimulating, experimental and exploratory as it guides students to the world of forming questions, searching for answers and developing conclusions. Unfortunately, this model is rather uncommon in Polish primary schools. This publication presents how experimenting, used by teachers, could introduce 7-year-old students in the first grade of primary school, into the world of knowledge and natural science competence. It also shows, how experimenting affects the level of students’ education and natural science competence.   

Author Biography

  • Barbara Lulek, University of Rzeszów
    Barbara Lulek – Ph.D., scientific worker of Pedagogic Institute in University of Rzeszów. Research interests – focused on social pedagogic issues, mainly partnership, cooperation and co-acting of basic educational environments. She is an author of monograph devoted to connections of school, family and wider social environment (“Family and school in the view of child’s personality development”, Impuls Publishing House, Kraków 2000, “Cooperation of school, family and environment”, University of Rzeszów’s Publishing House, Rzeszów 2008, “Selected issues of family pedagogic”, University of Rzeszów’s Publishing House, Rzeszów 2010), and around dozen articles placed in local, all-Poland and foreign magazines.

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Published

2020-12-28

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2020): (Julio - Diciembre)

Section

Estudios e Investigaciones

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Experimental cognition of the world by children. Unexploited opportunities of Polish primary schools: Acerca del conocimiento experimental del mundo por parte de los alumnos. Posibilidades no aprovechadas de la Escuela Primaria Polaca. (2020). ENSAYOS. Revista De La Facultad De Educación De Albacete, 35(2), 209-219. https://doi.org/10.18239/ensayos.v35i2.2373