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The importance of understanding during the teaching process

Author(s): Saša Dubljanin
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Педагошко друштво Србије
Keywords: understanding; types of understanding; learning; problem solving; teaching focused on understanding

Summary/Abstract: Learning in the teaching process often goes on without proper understanding which is one of important problems that modern didactics tries to solve. In order to direct the totality of teaching towards understanding it is necessary to answer the question what understanding is, which is why we analysed different philosophical views on the concept of understanding and stressed their semblance to pedagogic explanations. Different kinds of understanding were analyzed as well as their role and contribution in different teaching situations, especially in the context of problem solving. As an alternative to the teaching based on accumulation of knowledge the characteristics and some principles of teaching focused on understanding are described, and the need for stimulating and developing understanding as an important goal of education. The results of our research unequivocally show that learning with understanding enables students to memorize the teaching material better, as well as to understand the whole teaching subject and efficiently apply the acquired knowledge out of school, and leads to more flexible behaviour and better coping in everyday life.

  • Issue Year: 64/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-19
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian
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