ISSUES OF SCIENCE TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This paper aims to propose some ways on how to improve the relation between didactics and science in the field of science teaching in universities. Educating young people in sciences is one of the objectives of a general reform of programs that has swept Higher Education in Albania, due to the Bologna process. But this reform was originally conceived as training for teachers or students rather as an interactive process between these two actors. This paper argues that training teachers with the didactics of science would enable students to acquire knowledge more actively and efficiently. From a socio-constructivist perspective this study analyzes the situation in which vocational education is in Albania as well as the teacher’s role in helping students develop an independent intellectual thought. The results of this study are based on three sources: student questionnaires, teachers’ interviewing and class observations. Data analysis reveals that it is essential for teachers to be professionally trained with innovative methods of didactic research. Their implementation will allow the selection of those practices in science teaching which will facilitate the students’ knowledge acquisition.