The Impact of Constructivism on Education: Language ...

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that students do not enter instruction as blank slates, but instead possess a variety of pre-conceptions tied to prior experiences that teachers must take into account during curriculum planning and instruction. Student preconceptions, or naïve conceptions, have been shown to be very resistant to change (Driver, 1989; Osborne & Freyberg, 1985).

  Curriculum, Constructivism, Conception