EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In words of Professor Armstrong, “Heuristic methods of teaching are methods which involve our placing students as far as possible in the altitude of the discoverer-methods which involve their finding out instead of being merely told about things".

Detailed explanation-2: -Heuristic means discovery in Greek. Professor Henry Edward Armstrong of Imperial College, London, was a strong advocate of Heuristic method. The exponent of this method was Prof. Armstrong.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Edward Armstrong who introduced this method for teaching science, “Heuristic method is a method of teaching which involves our placing of children as far as possible in the attitude of a discoverer”. In this method, the student has to find out the answer to his/her own problem by unaided efforts.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the founders of heuristics is the Hungarian mathematician György (George) Pólya, who published a book about the subject in 1945 called ‘How to Solve It’. He used four principles that form the basis for problem solving.

Detailed explanation-5: -The heuristic method of teaching is an economic and fast strategy. In the Heuristic method, the student must be an independent discoverer. So there is no teacher help or guidance in this method. In this method, the teacher poses a problem to the students, then stands aside while they discover the answer.