associative learning impediment

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An associative learning impediment is a type of learning impediment where a learner understands new learning in terms of an association with prior learning/experience in a way which is unhelpful from the perspective of canonical understanding

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.