…and Spiders are not Insects
Date
2003-06
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Daily Express
Abstract
This article uses a personal experience to illustrate the resilience of students' prior concepts in science education. It suggests that teachers who embrace constructivism as a philosophy of knowledge should continue to elicit students' prior understandings, but also try to help them to become aware of, and understand, the different constructed understandings of phenomena they encounter by deliberately confronting their prior knowledge
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Constructivism, Learning processes, Science education, Teaching methods