2022-11-27

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This paper considers some of the reasons why motivated students in suitable learning environments may fail to learn from competent teachers.

...the constructivist perspective that learning is a process of knowledge
construction in the mind of the learner (Pope 1982; von Glaserfeld 1989, Fensham, Gunstone &
White 1994), and assumes that we are concerned with ‘meaningful’ rather than ‘rote’ learning
(Ausubel 1961).



The primary distinction is between situations when the intended learning does not take place
because
(a) the learner can not make sense of the presented material in terms of existing ideas; or
(b) the learner interprets the new material in terms of existing, but alternative, ideas.
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Keith S. Taber, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, U.K. 2000.
https://science-education-research.com/downloads/publications/2001/Taber-2001-TheMismatchBetweenAssumedPriorKnowledge-AMV.pdf