A constructivist approach in teaching in higher education for getting methodological and reflection competences
2014
Briede, B., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Engineering. Inst. of Education and Home Economics | Peks, L., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Engineering. Inst. of Education and Home Economics
A constructivist approach in education as a paradigm shift from teaching to learning with an emphasis on active individual’s intelligence organization and immediate construction of new information to experience is a quite serious challenge in contemporary higher education. Therefore the aim of the article is to highlight the principles of the constructivist approach in relation to the development of methodological and reflection competences. The method of questionnaire was used to investigate the students’ self-evaluation on the development of the competences in various study courses. The main results of the study were obtained from the fields of production and processing, architecture and construction, education and economics students of Latvia University of Agriculture. The students marked high, medium and low obtaining level of methodological and reflection competences, and results could be used in the revision of planned results of study courses and implementation of methods and content promoting the competences.
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