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27 SES 08 B, Textual Resources for Fostering Students' Argumentation and Knowledge Construction
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Socioconstructivistic understanding of learning and teaching processes have become a dominant paradigma in scientific and professional literature in recent decades. Creating of such an environment for learning, in which a student has a participative role and constructs his knowledges through his personal intellectual activities, is both an ideal, towards which we are aiming, and a criterion for the evaluation of the teaching process.
In contrast to a fruitfull and rich research area that has in its focus sociocontructivistic teaching/learning environment, learning processes, teaching/learning methods, as well as the role of the teacher and a student, socioconstructivistic design of textbooks is a novelty. On the other hand, the textbook is seen as one of the pillars for improving the quality of education. Good quality textbook can amortize the poor conditions of schools (especially in less economically developed countries), insufficiently motivated or trained teachers, social and cultural differences among children.
In socioconstructivistic view, textbooks have a much more complex role than transmission of the content. Textbooks have developmental and formative role in students’ construction of knowledge and both cognitive and personal development (Ivić, Pešikan& Antić, 2013). This is possible because, in the construction of textbooks focus is shifted from the content to the process of studying and acquiring that content. On the other hand, process of acquiring knowledge is seen as active construction of reliable and useful knowledge through students’ own intellectual efforts and actions. Textbook’s role is to provide conditions for the student’s independent construction of knowledge. This view emphasizes didactic design of the textbook’s content. That means that knowledge and information on a particular subject matter is didactically designed for a specific educational level and students’ age group. To fulfill developmental and formative role, textbooks should consider all relevant characteristic of student, his ages, cognitive level, vocabulary, prior knowledge, way of living etc. Main elements of didactic design are different structural components of textbook which can facilitate and improve student’s construction of knowledge. Structural components and their compositions can provide conditions for student’s learning.
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References
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