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ERIC Number: EJ540876
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Encouraging--and Challenging--Students' Understandings.
Zahorik, John A.
Educational Leadership, v54 n6 p30-32 Mar 1997
In productive constructionism, a teacher's job is to fuse students' knowledge with what experts know, not to favor one over the other. Teachers do not promote understanding by permitting students' constructions to stand even though they clash with experts' constructions. Student engagement in problem-solving tasks is crucial, but so is teacher-student dialog. (MLH)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction, Problem Solving, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Constructivism; Student Understanding