Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

1.6.3. Learning Points and Learning Activities
1.6.3.1. Major disciplines with discipline specific processes to acquire
knowledge
It is not enough if teachers know the content of different school subjects. It is important
to know the processes which help the students to acquire the content of different subjects.
Indeed, these are the processes through which the knowledge has been evolved. If a teacher
of science does not understand the processes of science, i.e. the processes which evolve
science knowledge, the teacher cannot decide the pedagogy of teaching science content.
These processes tell us the ways in which science content or knowledge has been evolved.
The same is true in relation to other subjects also. Therefore, let us learn the processes of
the emergence of knowledge in different disciplines through which the school subjects are
derived and understand that these are the pedagogical processes for respective subjects.