浅谈对探究教学的认识与思考

Understanding and thinking about inquiry teaching

探究教学是 2 0世纪 60年代提出的 ,其核心是使学生通过类似科学家的探究过程理解科学概念和科学探究的本质 ,培养科学探究能力。美国几十年的科学教育实践表明 ,探究教学有着明显的优势 ,但实践起来困难重重。本文分析了探究教学的优势与弊端 ,以及科学探究的基本特征 ,并针对我国的科学教育实际提出了一些建议。

Inquiry teaching was posed in the 1960s. The core of inquiry teaching is by letting students engage in scientific inquiry process that is similar to scientists to help them understand scientific concepts and the nature of science, and to develop students ability to do scientific inquiry. The experences of science education in USA during the past decades demonstrated that although inquiry teaching has various advantages in theory, teachers still encountered many difficulties in practice. This article analyze the advantages and disadvantages of inquiry teaching and basic features of scientific inquiry, and based on which give some suggestions on what we could do in our science education practice.