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Students in learning groups: Active learning through conversation

✍ Scribed by Clark Bouton; Russell Y. Garth

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Weight: 503 KB
Volume: 1983
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-0633
DOI: 10.1002/tl.37219831410

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The increasing recognition that all learning is a constructive process calls into question many traditional teaching practices. Students need the opportunity to formulate questions and insights as they occur and to test them in conversation with others.

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