Teaching Methods

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This paper examines two very different ways of teaching (which set the stage for very different ways of learning in the classroom) ? the constructivist and the traditional. The paper explores the definitions of these two types of teaching and finds a common ground between them, despite their apparent differences. The writer then examines the two approaches in greater depth to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of each one of them.

Contents:
Introduction
Historical Background to Constructivist Education
Traditionalist Approaches
The Progressive Core of Constructivist Learning
The Future of the Classroom
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"This shift would lead educators down a path that was itself an old one, at least in the realm of philosophy if not of primary education - the idea of heuristics, or "the art of intellectual discovery" (Kafai & Resnick, 1996, p. 11.) Another way that this word can be understood (and the authors rightly note that it is etymologically linked to Archimedes's cry of ?Eureka!?, a paradigmatic example of the learner suddenly reaching out to the world to make it make sense) as teaching not numbers or thinking in school."

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