STUDENT RESEARCH: ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE NATURE AND PROCESS OF SCIENCE

The traditional education is based mainly on mastery of content, neglecting the training of inquiring attitudes. Such system of education is teacher-centered, the students getting the information from a teacher about the known facts, often “the only correct answer” is proposed. Learning is accomplished through words, symbols and images (which are also the linguistic components) rather than through active involvement of students in the processes which regard the situations for their future social and professional environment. Systematic product- and/or discipline-oriented, rule-based instructive teaching and learning provide the acquisition of basic knowledge in primary, mostly in secondary and high schools, and still plays an important role in University education. Some educators persist such a type of education supports the traditions and prepares students for the next (school) grade level. Even when it's partially true, in-school success means less than a system helping a student learn to learn throughout life.