Working from Children's Ideas: Planning and Teaching a Chemistry Topic from a Constructivist Perspective

doi:10.4324/9780203046333-20

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Working from Children's Ideas: Planning and Teaching a Chemistry Topic from a Constructivist Perspective

ABSTRACT

This chapter raises a number of issues relating to planning and teaching science from a constructivist perspective (Driver, in press). The issues are considered through a case study of teaching and learning in the area of chemical change.