Saturday, April 4, 2020

Developing Scientific Temperaments among Children


Scientific temperaments refers to a mindset to perceive the situation logically and investigate it objectively. It involves inquisition and logical thinking so that fallacies could be avoided. Humans’ emotions and inner desires often compels them to make wrong decisions. The scientific tempers and scientific attitude helps them to take informed and rational decisions. Further, it helps in upgrading the existing knowledge and improvements over the prevailing practices for the benefits of mankind.
As a way of life the scientific temper uses the scientific method. Scientific methods includes questioning, observing physical reality, testing, hypothesizing, analysing, and communicating.  Scientific temper at individual level exists during decision making for everyday situations. It involves repeated observations and conclusions by relating various variables on cause and effects framework of understanding the situation.
It is said that scientific temper must exists in individual to revive confidence and hope and to dispel fatalistic outlook. Since ancient days the logical solutions of social problems achieved through scientific method and scientific temperaments.   A lot of mistakes and logical fallacies are avoided from being repeated by thinking scientifically.

In this blog some activities are suggested to develop scientific temper among children -
·         Encouraging the children to ask questions.
·         Helping him to search the answer on his own
·         Allow to commit the mistakes
·         Guiding for reliable sources of reference
·         Have all recreational activities
·         Allow the children to understand in Why?,  How? and When?
·         Do not put our own ideas before the children in such a way that could hinder their creativity.
·        Teaching should be in the logical sequence  of understanding i.e from general to specific and relating these in reverse way also.
·         Exceptions must be pointed to help understand the existence of mysteries.
·         Support experimentation in day to day environment.
·         Help to create diagrams and models.
·         Help to write with reasoning.
·         Avoid using chapter questions when it comes to academics
·         Make some learning application-based
·         Advise extra reading to improve her analysis of information.
·         Chess, brain teasers and riddles games are also helpful.
-          Dr A. K. Srivastava
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