interpretive resources

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For people to make sense of new information they have to relate it to their past experience and prior learning. Interpretive resources refers to those memories, images, meanings for terms, existing conceptions, etc., that the person has available to help make sense of new experience including what they hear and read.

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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.