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Приложение на изследователския подход за развитие на научна грамотност при изучаване химичните процеси в обучението по химия и опазване на околната среда – Х клас
Application of the Inquiry-based Approach for the Development of Scientific Literacy

Author(s): Yordanka Stefanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, School education, History of Education, State/Government and Education, Social development, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: scientific literacy; chemistry education; inquiry-based approach

Summary/Abstract: For the future life of young people their scientific education will allow them to live and act adequately in a society influenced by the ideas and values of science. Therefore, in the center of many educational systems an emphasis is placed on forming and developing scientific literacy in students. Inquiry-based approach in education is one of the important means for its formation and development as it puts the students in a situation where they carry out research activity, describe and analyze its results. In this article is presented an attempt to use inquiry-based approach in the study of chemical processes in Chemistry and environmental protection in the10th. class. For its implementation a methodical model for application of scientific approach based on constructivist theories in education is developed. The results of a conducted experimental training for the determination of the expediency of the model are presented. A test is developed for establishing the training of students with an emphasis on scientific literacy. Testing results show that the developed methodical model creates good conditions for the development of scientific literacy.

  • Issue Year: 29/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 370-389
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian