BRUNER’S THEORY OF DISCOVERY LEARNING.pptx

Bruner's discovery learning- Constructivism

1. BRUNER’S THEORY OF DISCOVERY LEARNING Presented by: Surekha V S Assistant Professor in Commerce SVTEC, Akkikkavu

2. Discovery Learning Bruner is the exponent of Discovery Approach to learning Learning is an active social process Learner selects information, forms hypothesis & integrates the new material to their cognitive structure Learners considered as inquirers of knowledge Learning to learn Process of learning is more important than the mere material learnt

3. Stages of Learning Enactive - Experience the concrete objects Iconic - Represents the materials mentally Symbolic - Use higher order thinking skills & symbols

4. Strategies for effective discovery learning Make use of curiosity of learners Grade the curricular material to suit the developmental status of the learners Constant & systematic interaction between the teacher and the learner

5. Thinking Strategies Selection - Learner himself makes classification by forming his own judgements & by testing them Reception - Positive & negative instances are given by an expert & by studying in terms of attributes, learner internalise the concept

6. Concept Learning Scanning - what the teacher does is forming concept hypothesis on the basis of items observed & then to test the hypotheses Scanning Simultaneous Scanning Successive Scanning Focussing - learner focuses his attention on attributes of the instances/members in the group Focussing Focus Gambling Conservative focussing

7. Simultaneous scanning All the hypotheses tested with regard to each member of the group & correct one identified Successive Scanning Only one concept hypothesis is taken at a time & is tested with respect to all members/items in a group

8. Focus Gambling All attributes noticed in the first instance are tested at the same time in case of each of the other cases Conservative Focussing Single attribute is taken & is tested with each item before the second attribute is taken

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