DEFINITION OF DISCOVERY

LEARNING

Discovery Learning is a method to

(Budiningsih, 2005: 43 in
Mendikbud, 2013 ) understand the concepts, meanings,
and relationships, through intuitive
process to finally come to a
conclusion.
 Discovery Learning is a type of method
where learners construct their own
Joolingen (1999: 285) knowledge by experimenting with a
domain, and inferring rules from the
results of these experiments.

Discovery learning is a method that

Balım (2008:2) encourages students to arrive at a
conclusion based upon their own activities
and observations.
 ADVANTAGES OF DISCOVERY LEARNING
(asproposed by Mendikbud 2013)

Helping students to improve and

enhance cognitive processes

This method is centered on students and teachers alike Helping the students to direct their own learning activities
participate actively state the ideas. involving their wits and their own motivation.
 is not efficient to teach many students, because it will take a
long time to help them find a theory or solving other problems.

Teaching discovery is more suitable for developing

understanding, whereas to develop aspects of concepts, skills
and overall emotional still have less attention.

Not provide opportunities to the students to find and discover

the material of lesson they like because it has been pre-
selected by the teacher

Teacher and students who usually applied the old method will
be difficult to understand the new concept in the new method.
This method raises the assumption that there is a readiness of
mind to learn.