EFFECT OF CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH ON THE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TOWARDS HISTORY SUBJECT

Education is the continuous process basically focused on facilitating learning, acquisition of knowledge, various skills, values, beliefs, habits, and personal development to all. The present conceptual paper is emphasis on the effect of constructivism approach on the attitude of students towards History subject. Now a days our current education system emphasizes on students centric Teaching-Learning. The students centric teaching learning process emphasizing on memorization is usually adopted across length and breadth of Indian schools. This paper sketches the effect of constructivism approach on the attitude of the Students. The constructivism approach includes more creative thinking by adopting pedagogy. The paper also proposes the important aspects such as various strategies and need based learning in teaching-learning process for adoption of constructivism approach towards History subject. Besides this it also outlines the learning strategies and learning design required for successful implementation of constructivism approach on the attitude of students towards History subject. The present paper imbibes the effect of constructivism approach on the attitude of students towards History subject with prime objectives are (i) To understand the concept of Constructivism Approach. (ii) To discuss the effect of constructivism approach on the attitude of students towards History subject. (iii) To illustrate the Role of Teachers in implementing the Constructivism Approach for History subject. The methodology of the research is a different type involving an interpretative, conversation and study secondary sources, like books, articles, journals, thesis, university news, expert opinion, and websites, etc.