pedagogic learning impediment

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a type of grounded learning impediment where something presented in teaching (perhaps a simplification or a metaphor used) is interpreted by a student in an unhelpful way: e.g., seeing a teaching model realistically, or taking a metaphor literally.

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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.