Appreciative Teaching of Social Sciences in Competence Based Approaches of Higher Education

FORMAT | Presented paper

LANGUAGE | English

HOW TO CITE| SANDU, Antonio (2015). Appreciative Teaching of Social Sciences in Competence Based Approaches of Higher Education. Prezentată la 1st Central & Eastern European LUMEN International Scientific Conference: LUMEN NASHS 2015| 11-13 September 2015 | Chisinau, Moldova.

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ABSTRACT:

In teaching the disciplines in the social-human field, we appealed to the constructionist model of education. In this model, the unity of competence represents a construct resulting from the communicative action as deliberative act instituted by the stakeholders participating to the social construction of the professional identity. Therefore, such unity is not a given defining abstract itself for a professional activity. Each such unit of competence resulted in a process of negotiation of interpretations on the meaning of the term of good practice in a given professional activity. Experimental implementation of certain curricular innovations may constitute an element of added value only to the extent to which this pseudo-experiment takes the form of a process of co-learning and curricular co-construction both in the educational framework, and also for students to acknowledge the partnership in the educational act, and not the specific magistral attitude specific to the educational model centred on the teacher.
In this article we present a series of curricular innovations that targeted the expansion of the appreciative-constructionist model of learning as basis of curricular projection and development. The method consists of using the appreciative inquiry in reformulating the experience of the subjects related to the social reality analysed, and the customization of different contexts of the social experience.

KEYWORDS:

appreciative teaching, appreciative pedagogy, appreciative inquiry, social sciences.