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Download full textWenk, Laura – 1999
This paper discusses the traditional lecture-based instruction method. Strong experimental evidence suggests that social context affects knowledge construction and depends on prior knowledge. Engagement in the inquiry process using constructivist viewpoints can make the characteristics of science, scientific knowledge, and scientific method easy…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Higher Education, Inquiry
