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Volume 12, Number 01, Don Forrester Editor
Volume 12, Number 01, Don Forrester Editor
Reaching Through Teaching
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Volume 11, Number 02, Lana Wachniak Editor
Volume 11, Number 02, Lana Wachniak Editor
Reaching Through Teaching
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Promoting Science Teacher Education Through Dissonance And Discrepancy, Nelofer Halai, Alan E. Wheeler
Promoting Science Teacher Education Through Dissonance And Discrepancy, Nelofer Halai, Alan E. Wheeler
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
While inquiry in science teaching has found a great deal of acceptance (Colletet and Chiapetta, 1989), there is a growing recognition that educators need a wider repertoire of inquiry strategies applicable to various situations. One promising approach is through the use of so-called ‘dissonant’ or ‘discrepant events’. This concept of discrepancy can be traced to the early work of Festinger (1975) and his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance in which he stated that the creation of dissonance is psychologically very uncomfortable and motivates individuals to actively reduce the level of dissonance and thereby return to a state of greater equilibrium or …
Volume 11, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor
Volume 11, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor
Reaching Through Teaching
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Teachers' Understanding Of Word Problems, Mir Afzal Tajik
Teachers' Understanding Of Word Problems, Mir Afzal Tajik
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