Coming Up for Air: But Is It Oxygen or Phlogiston? A Response to Taber's Review of Constructivist Instruction: Success Or Failure?

Keith Taber's lucid review (Taber, 2010) of the Tobias & Duffy (2009) book presents an articulate contrast to the typically contentious and unjoined debates about proand anticonstructivist approaches to education. Indeed the clarity of Taber‟s summary of those approaches highlights some specific issues about which I offer a few points of disagreement in what I hope is the same spirit of constructive (but not constructivist!) criticism. When Theories Compete, There Is Ultimately a Winner

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