What is the focus of concern in understanding level teaching?
2020
What is the focus of concern in understanding level teaching?
- A.
Promotion of scope for seeking of relationship among facts and ideas.
- B.
Encouraging recall and recognition of facts and information.
- C.
Raising of problems and seeing solutions to problems so presented.
- D.
Developing a sense of happiness and ownership in learning.
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Correct answer: A
The question tests the three levels of teaching given by the Memory–Understanding–Reflective model (the understanding level is associated with H. C. Morrison).
Memory level (Herbart) aims at rote acquisition and reproduction of facts; reflective level (Hunt) develops critical, problem-solving thinking; the understanding level sits in between as 'memory plus insight'.
The understanding level of teaching focuses on making the learner see relationships among facts, ideas, generalizations and principles, and on applying those generalizations to particular cases — not on mere recall and not on open problem-solving.
Therefore the focus of concern in understanding-level teaching is the promotion of scope for seeking the relationship among facts and ideas, which is option (1).