The author does not make any reference to the learning psychology when he talks about learning and teaching. He does not know and does not care how students learn. Most of what he said is nonsense, kind of postmodernism staff.
For anybody who really cares:
How Students Learn:
History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom (2005)
For anybody who really cares:
How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom (2005)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10126
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