4th Book of Proceedings - 2017 - TEACHING STRATEGY IDENTIFYING SIMILARITIES AND DIFERENCES AS A DEVELOPING FACTOR IN ACTIVE LEARNING IN GEOGRAPHY

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Milka Grmuša

Sanda Šušnjar

Jelena Golijanin

Mariana Lukić Tanović

 

STRATEGIJA PRONALAŽENJA SLIČNOSTI I RAZLIKA U FUNKCIJI RAZVOJA AKTIVNE NASTAVE GEOGRAFIJE

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2016.4.97

UDC: 910.5/.9:37.016

  

Abstract: This paper deals with teaching strategy of finding similarities and differneces, enhancing possibilities and applying effectivness in geography learning. Throw adequate analysis it is highlighted value of the strategy in improving student cognitive skills. Numerous research claimed neccessity of implementying active learnig strategies, whereby learnig process would be focused on students activation and imroving of their cognitive(learning) skills. The aim of geography learnig and a character of geographical contents affects the selection of proper learnig startegy. Besides gaining a new informations and improving studnets knowledge, advancing skills of analithic and sinthetic reasoning and making analogies is highly important teaching focus. The aim of this paper is enhancing the value of this strategy in active geography teaching and learinig, all given through possibilities of proper applying with examples in geography classes. The method of theoretical analysis was used. The analysis of different teaching methodology literature, pedagogical, didactic and psychological literature has found that the strategy identifying similarities and differences, suitable for the development of students' higher thinking activities, and that it can contribute to easier understanding and acquisition of geographical content. The paper presents an analysis of different possibilities of application of this strategy in the teaching of geography, as well as practical examples of application by using various graphic organizers.

Key words: Strategy, Identifying similarities and differences, Active Learning, teaching geography

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