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Constructivist Approaches to Learning in Science and Their ...

are taught in school by means of verbal definitions and explanations or mathematical sym-bols and reside on a level of abstraction. In contrast, everyday concepts develop outside a definite system; in order to be understood in relation to what has been learned in school, thinking must move upward toward abstraction and generalization.

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