The sector of education is growing, and educators are looking for the best methods to teach their students so that they may develop into high achievers and be able to use their knowledge when necessary. Starting with the conventional approach and ending with the present, where everything is modern. However, learning needs to find a more effective means to raise students’ talents, even though that teachers apply conventional techniques.
When given the option to select between traditional learning and discovery learning, some people will choose the latter because it requires kids to learn on their own and employ more creative thinking. Traditional education is a style of learning that is regarded as unsuccessful because it is monotonous and discourages students’ learning.
A psychologist by the name of Jerome Bruner proposed the discovery learning method in 1961. Chan (2010) claims that the Discovery Learning style of education requires students to create their knowledge. To make the learning process more student-centered, where students engage in activities like practice and discussion, and use scientific learning techniques like observation, classification, research, and interpretation that are critical of what they discover during the learning process (Kolawole & Akanbi, 2014).
The discovery learning teaching model’s main goal is to foster creativity by discovering how to find results and encourage thinking about these results. Therefore, while discovery learning has advantages that can maximize learning, such as only encouraging students to be more creative, prioritizing process over results, and being able to adjust each student’s rate of thought, one of its disadvantages is that this approach calls for sufficient practice tools to ensure that learning is not affected.
Author : Kholidah Aisyah Furi
