The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff,amazon.com
The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Piaget’s great insight was that knowledge is not delivered from teacher to learner; rather, children are constantly constructing knowledge through their everyday interactions with people and objects around them. Seymour’s constructionism theory adds a second type of construction, arguing that children construct knowledge most effectively when they
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