Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1994
Citation
Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy (1993-1994) 5(4)
A publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Abstract
Discusses prior knowledge and current learning, and using prior knowledge in instruction.
The lesson we take from the research on prior knowledge is simply this: students are not blank slates on which our words on inscribed. The students bring more to the interpretation of the situation than we realize. What they learn is conditioned by what they already know. What they know can be as damaging as what they don't know.
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Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
Copyright 1994, Marilla Svinicki. Used by permission