At 10:16 AM -0500 6/22/00, Rosa Graciela Montes wrote:
>LSV's interest in "defectology" or "pathology". Do these observations
>transfer easily to other aspects?
Yes, Rosa. While the science education's 'misconceptions' research is now viewed by many to be problematic, those studies did indicate the importance of recognizing the contributions of student's prior knowledge and interpretive/constructive processes in learning.
The question you raise for me is whether defectology can be described dialectically as a contradiction between individual performance and normed (collective) performance. Same on the other side of the curve -- "gifted".
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