Over
the years, the Nigerian educational system have been perisitently
declining due to the fact that it lacks the neccessary prerequisites to
succeed and yeild a desired citinzenry that loves their country with
full passion and enthusiasm. This goes a long way to the development of
such nation in terms of technology and scientific discoveries.
Having lucubrated alot in the exordium, there is need for a strict and comprehensive review of the teaching methodlologies in the country.
I came across a series of philosophies and ideologies of people that is applicable to the development of Nigeria. If Nigerian educational system can be pragmatic in nature, there is no doubt that the rate of effective teaching and learning would be enhanced tremendously. I'm optimistic that its one of the fundamental issue that back pedal the affairs of the teaching and learning process.
Pragmatism as a method of teaching allows the learner to view the concept he is expected to learn in a more practical, contextual, logical, and comprehensive basis rather than the normal mere class room activities that is tagged to be more of an abtract thing.
John Dewey is one of the proponents of this school of taught in philosophy. He believes that practical prevails better than action. The pragmatist are concerned more with the result rather than the means. They are on the premise that anything that could be seing, feel and touched provides a logical, and ever lasting experience on the childs cognitive, affective and psychmotor domain of the learner. And on the other hand, anything that is been taught that is considered to be abstract is very weird to the students' intellectual understanding.
They also argue that anything that yields positive values should be accepted and anything that yeilds a negative values should be discarded.
In a situation where a teacher is passing an intruction related to the concept of rocks, plateau, etc he can simple take the students to a field trip in mountainous regions to investigate the real topography and terrian of an area. If a student is taught that a plateau is a table like structure formed as a result of the ejection of hot liquid magma that cools and solidify, they can simple be shown one of the greatest plateaus and allow them to review the physical setting, structures and types. This would go a long way to having a formative image on their cognitive domain compared to if they are been taught in classes via diagrams.
Additionally during the course of a lesson that involves formation of rainfall, the teacher can as well take them to the lab for a practical that best explains such concept. He can have a boiling pot covered firmly for some time. After the water have been boiled under an intense pressure and temperature, he then open the pot and raise the cover to the students. The remaining droplets that drops from the cover represents the atmospheric rainfall, while where it falls back is the earth. By implication, rainfall arises scientifically when the earth is heated up, molecules then evaporate from the earth to the atmosphere in form of gasses. When they are condensed, they now melt and comes back as rain. So as the hot water boils, the heated molecules are transfered and hanged on the cover which serves as the atmosphere. And after it has been cooled, it then comes back into the main pot which serves as the earth.
In conclusion, pragmatism is very neccessary in terms of effective teaching and learning. Its said to be distincetively a 20th century philosophy that originated from America and are been used by teachers to enhance learning. Pragmatism has reduced the rate of class duration and activities as all that the learners requires is been explained in a short basis; that is on practical basies. It has also led to more of a field work and practicals rather than just stay in the class and talk.
Having lucubrated alot in the exordium, there is need for a strict and comprehensive review of the teaching methodlologies in the country.
I came across a series of philosophies and ideologies of people that is applicable to the development of Nigeria. If Nigerian educational system can be pragmatic in nature, there is no doubt that the rate of effective teaching and learning would be enhanced tremendously. I'm optimistic that its one of the fundamental issue that back pedal the affairs of the teaching and learning process.
Pragmatism as a method of teaching allows the learner to view the concept he is expected to learn in a more practical, contextual, logical, and comprehensive basis rather than the normal mere class room activities that is tagged to be more of an abtract thing.
John Dewey is one of the proponents of this school of taught in philosophy. He believes that practical prevails better than action. The pragmatist are concerned more with the result rather than the means. They are on the premise that anything that could be seing, feel and touched provides a logical, and ever lasting experience on the childs cognitive, affective and psychmotor domain of the learner. And on the other hand, anything that is been taught that is considered to be abstract is very weird to the students' intellectual understanding.
They also argue that anything that yields positive values should be accepted and anything that yeilds a negative values should be discarded.
In a situation where a teacher is passing an intruction related to the concept of rocks, plateau, etc he can simple take the students to a field trip in mountainous regions to investigate the real topography and terrian of an area. If a student is taught that a plateau is a table like structure formed as a result of the ejection of hot liquid magma that cools and solidify, they can simple be shown one of the greatest plateaus and allow them to review the physical setting, structures and types. This would go a long way to having a formative image on their cognitive domain compared to if they are been taught in classes via diagrams.
Additionally during the course of a lesson that involves formation of rainfall, the teacher can as well take them to the lab for a practical that best explains such concept. He can have a boiling pot covered firmly for some time. After the water have been boiled under an intense pressure and temperature, he then open the pot and raise the cover to the students. The remaining droplets that drops from the cover represents the atmospheric rainfall, while where it falls back is the earth. By implication, rainfall arises scientifically when the earth is heated up, molecules then evaporate from the earth to the atmosphere in form of gasses. When they are condensed, they now melt and comes back as rain. So as the hot water boils, the heated molecules are transfered and hanged on the cover which serves as the atmosphere. And after it has been cooled, it then comes back into the main pot which serves as the earth.
In conclusion, pragmatism is very neccessary in terms of effective teaching and learning. Its said to be distincetively a 20th century philosophy that originated from America and are been used by teachers to enhance learning. Pragmatism has reduced the rate of class duration and activities as all that the learners requires is been explained in a short basis; that is on practical basies. It has also led to more of a field work and practicals rather than just stay in the class and talk.
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