Teaching that Resonates: Deepening Learning Through Concepts

AI prompt (Google (2026) ‘Dr lalit Inshore educator on concept attainment model’   revealed, “Dr. Lalit Kishore is an Indian educator and researcher who advocates for process-based science instruction and the use of the Concept Attainment Model (CAM) in school curricula.”

Kishore’s key views on CAM are as follows

• Good Pedagogy: Dr. Kishore classifies the Concept Attainment Model as a superior instructional strategy compared to traditional lectures or behavioural approaches.

• Process-Based Learning: He supports active, experiential, and inquiry-based learning where students construct knowledge rather than just memorize facts.

• Inductive Reasoning: Drawing from foundational work by Jerome Bruner, the model uses positive and negative examples to help students figure out the core attributes of a scientific or abstract concept on their own.

• Early Advocacy: During his tenure teaching physics at Mayo College in Ajmer during the 1970s, he promoted process-based learning and concept attainment methods in papers published by the NCERT and international science journals

While working in Mayo College, Ajmer, in early 1970s, he tried Nuffield Physics innovation in vogue in the UK which treated physics as an experimental science coupled with CAM.  Later at MNSS, Rai, he tried out a blend of cognitive competency- based learning model (CLM) and CAM  to improve learning outcomes

Essentially, CAM is an inductive teaching strategy designed by Jerome Bruner to helps students understand and define specific concepts by analyzing and comparing positive and negative examples along the attributes and functions of a concept or a term.