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a means of construing something. George Kelly based his personal construct theory on constructs rather than concepts/conceptions, seeing constructs as having a wider range – although in practical use in educational work the terms may often be used synonymously
"constructs encompassed the cognitive, affective and conative…and were bipolar continua…any personal constructs would be more idiosyncratic, and would not always have communicable labels that would be readily understood by others. Indeed, a key feature of many personal constructs is that as well as not having explicit labels, the very construct itself may be tacit" (Taber, 2020)
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