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88. The Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-based, Experiential, and Inquiry-based Teaching

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Are You Getting in a Way With Discovery Learning?

Discovery learning is an inquiry based or you know problem based kind of approach and that's also very intuitively appealing but basically for similar reasons as we'll see later in this in this article. We can't treat novices as experts because they are not experts because they don't have the requisite background knowledge all right next quote advocates of this approach implied that instructional guidance that provides or embeds learning strategies in instruction interferes with the natural processes by which learners draw on their unique prior experience and learning styles to construct new situated knowledge That will achieve their goals so basically what that means is people who like this say that teachers are going to get in a way so we need to stop teachers getting

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