What is the teacher trying to teach students if they are all busy constructing their own private worlds?": Introduction to the special issue

Constructivist Foundations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 297-301

  Riegler, Alexander ^a   Steffe, Leslie P ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational research; Ernst von Glasersfeld; Jean Piaget; Social aspects of learning; Theory of learning; Theory of teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904650867     PISSN: 1782348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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