Epistemology or pedagogy, that is the question

Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 144-157

  Kirschner, Paul A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203878842     Document Type: Chapter

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