Eleanor Duckworth would say in Bart’s new classroom children
are free to have wonderful ideas. The teacher accepts the risk associated
with providing Bart the opportunity to explore in chemistry. The classroom environment is one in which the
teacher provides “matter to think about” and students interact and explore to
construct meaning, but Bart lacks the knowledge (his "personal repetoire of thoughts, actions, predictions and feelings") needed. Airasian and Walsh would caution that
constructivist instruction should not constitute the only instructional process
and that pursuing constructivist methods of instruction does not mean accepting
anything and everything as evidence of learning.
Is there even such a thing as "constructivist instruction" according to Airasian and Walsh? This question is related an important point they're trying to make.
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