This article uses a personal experience to illustrate the resilience of students' prior concepts in science education. It suggests that teachers who embrace constructivism as a philosophy of knowledge should continue to ...

The way mathematics is taught in many Caribbean classrooms often hinders the development of mathematical thinking skills and the attainment of mathematical understanding. This paper puts forward the view that the essential ...

This article discusses constructivism as a teaching method that is required of teachers in Trinidad and Tobago in order to respond to several educational innovations. These innovations are seen as requiring a paradigm shift ...

In Brazil, the relationship between the need to overcome social, political and educational problems generated by the military dictatorship established in 1964 and the search for didactic-pedagogical responses to the problems ...